Pope Francis
Our Lord said to Francis of Assisi in the great saint’s vision at San Damiano: “Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins.” Source.
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Crucifixion
Our March artist, Michael D. O’Brien, was born in Ottawa in 1948 and is internationally renowned as the author of twenty books, notably the novel Father Elijah and eight other novels, which have been translated into twelve languages and widely reviewed in both secular and religious media in North America and Europe. Several of his non-fiction[…]
Blessed Are You
There are so many times in my life when I’ve never felt so blessed! I have a loving family, daily nourishment, and a God Who romances me daily. There are other times in my life when I don’t feel so blessed. Sometimes, like Job, we are deprived of the gifts we love. In those times,[…]
Confessions of a Recovering Almost-Hoarder
When my grandmother moved out of the house she had lived in for 35 years, it took the family several days to clean it out. She had saved everything from balls of yarn to scraps of fabric, ratty tea towels and dish cloths to scads of decrepit plastic bags and flattened bits of cardboard. You[…]
Lessons from Picasso
I love art—particularly paintings. I love the way that paintings have their own language, where so much can be conveyed in a single image. Generally, I prefer classical works. I’m not big on modern works, and up until a few years ago, there were absolutely no modern artists in my favorites list. Then one day,[…]
The Adventure of Letting Go
Five years ago, in the middle of a pretty rough semester at university, during which I had struggled with some health issues and some friend issues and a massive pile of schoolwork, I sat in the adoration chapel feeling utterly depleted. I was exhausted and overwhelmed and lost. Over the next few weeks everything continued[…]
Being Fully Human: Humility
The greatest thing you can learn is just to love and be loved in return. – Moulin Rouge It’s Thursday night—a holiday. You and your friends meet in an unfamiliar place to celebrate a familiar feast. The prayers and the meal have been the same since you were a child; they’ve been the same for[…]
Moving Days
As my family travels, we meet quite a few people who ask us things like, “Where is your favorite place to go?” (I have no answer to this) or “What’s your favorite part of traveling?” For this question, it’s easier to just give some simple generic answer about how much fun it is to travel[…]
Reaction
In the past week, there has been a lot of rough weather. The worst of it, or at least the worst that has gotten major news coverage, seems to be the tornado in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City is certainly not a place where tornadoes are a new thing. It hasn’t even been a decade since the[…]
Who Am I?
A few weeks ago on my birthday, a bunch of friends and I got together for drinks and excess amounts of various desserts. The conversation ranged from how on earth the wine bottle chandelier was constructed (I figured it out after about an hour) (everyone else seemed to not be mystified by it at all),[…]