When Wildlife Proclaims God's Handiwork
10 Animals (and Saints) God Used to Show His Glory There’s a line in the Gospels after Jesus calms a storm that always sends me into contemplating this question: “Who...
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Spring Spiritual Cleaning
These past few weeks I have begun to hear the song of springtime. While the melody remains faint, if I listen closely, I can hear expectant whispers of the symphony...
Gaze: A Reflection for Holy Week
Read: Then they seized Him and led Him away, bringing Him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance. And when they had kindled a fire...
World Poetry Day Featuring The Saints
Pious Musings from the Saints There’s a quote from the English philosopher and writer Aldous Huxley in which he claims, "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible...
Spring: Spiritual Significance and Bible Verses
On a late summer day, in the Italian hillside town of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI was speaking of springtime. He was encouraging the ancient practice of lectio divina, which is...
Saint Patrick and Forgiveness
“How did so great and salutary a gift come to me, the gift of knowing and loving God, though at the cost of homeland and family?” Saint Patrick wrote these...
Habits: A Prayer About Sacrifice
Read: “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house...
Healed and Restored // International Women's Day
Every March since 1911, International Women’s Day has been held around the world. This is a very important and necessary recognition of the needs and struggles of women and girls....
Female Doctors of the Church
If you are like me, occasions like International Women’s Month bring to mind a vast number of women and the work they are about in the world: religious Sisters, moms,...
Writerly Reflections on International Writers’ Day
“You should start a blog,” my friend declared. At the time—some sixteen years ago—I barely knew what a blog was. And I certainly did not know what business I had...
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