Surprise! It’s Pope Francis. Yeah, that happens.
Pope Francis makes an impromptu visit to an immigrant settlement on the outskirts of Rome. This video is so beautiful it made me cry. (more…)
Day one of a virtual retreat for couples. Join us!
It’s not too late! If you start right now, you and your spouse can participate in a virtual seven-day marriage retreat that will take you right up to Valentine’s Day. Well, technically it will take you to Friday the 13th, but let’s not go there. (more…)
Wisdom Wednesday: Putting back the pieces
Some food for thought on this Wisdom Wednesday from Everyday Sacred: A Woman’s Journey Home, a beautiful book by potter and author Sue Bender. Not surprisingly, it’s about brokenness, my favorite topic of late: (more…)
I’ve got white candles and I’m not afraid to use them
In these parts, throat blessings are hard to come by. No, make that near impossible. It’s just not done. At least not at our parish. So years ago I took it upon myself to do the blessings. And, yes, that’s allowed. The first time I blessed throats for my class of fourth-grade faith formation students, they looked at me in fear and asked if I was going to light those candles before holding them up to their throats. Ah, how sad that these kids don’t know some of the more interesting traditions of our faith. But once I told them about St. Blaise, a bishop and martyr who is said to have healed a boy who was choking on a fish bone, they were all in, and eagerly so. (more…)
