In honor of the Feast of the Archangels (Sept. 29) and the Feast of the Guardian Angels (Oct. 2), I thought I'd post my recent OSV story on angels and their ...
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I thought I'd share my latest Life Lines column. Life Lines has appeared monthly in Catholic New York for the past 10 years.By Mary DeTurris PoustWhen I began ...
One of my favorite parts of silent retreat is the opportunity to take the quiet of the retreat house or abbey and extend it out into the natural world. When I'm ...
Here's the Life Lines column I wrote 10 years ago, in the days following 9/11. So much has changed in the past decade. Our world has changed. My family has ...
Is it possible a full week has gone by since I was on retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee? Time moves so quickly, especially when time includes three kids going ...
I returned late yesterday from my private weekend retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, N.Y., where I was privileged and blessed to pray the Divine ...
Just about one year ago, when I spent 11 days in Rome, I had the chance to visit the Church of St. Augustine (seen here) multiple times since it was just around ...
For the past few days I've been looking at the numbers on the calendar, growing more and more introspective as we inched closer to August 6. It was 13 years ago ...
When I went to Rome in September, my watch stopped working on my first day in the Eternal City. My initial reaction was to run out and, through pointing and ...
When this little hen walked over to my car and stared up into my open driver's side window, I thought I was finally going to uncover one of the biggest secrets ...
"The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to ...
This is so much better than the version we do at church. Chiara was smiling from ear to ear when I put this on. H/T to The Ironic Catholic for this silly but ...
She was one of Jesus' closest disciples, there at the foot of the cross when the others ran away, the first one Jesus appeared to after the Resurrection, a ...
I've always been drawn to Dorothy Day. Maybe it's the powerful combination of her words and actions. I think more so it's my awe for someone who's able to do ...
In the span of about five days, I saw the new Winnie the Pooh movie with my 6-year-old, the Broadway show Wicked with my 11-year-old, and Deathly Hallows: Part ...
I have to admit, when my alarm went off at 5:10 a.m. today, I was not bursting with enthusiasm for the morning yoga class I planned to attend. For a minute or ...
From the Monastery of St. Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy.
Photo by Mary DeTurris Poust
Happy Feast of St. Benedict! Here's a snippet about St. Benedict from my ...
We kicked off summer officially today, with a short hike around Beaver Trail at Five Rivers Environmental Center and a picnic lunch. I thought that meant we ...
It's the first day of summer, and that can only mean one thing: Time to make our annual summer list of "musts," our Beach Bucket List. Of course, it doesn't ...
So here's the deal. When I become scarce in these parts, it's not because I don't appreciate and miss all of you. I do. It's usually because I feel so inept at ...