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Time is a transient thing. It slips by quickly unnoticed until days, weeks, months have melted away. Time in a crisis is even more fleeting. I find myself starting again in more ways than one. But isn’t that what life and faith are all about? A journey of stops and starts, speed bumps and long […]
Dream Over That was the headline for a story on Susan Boyle, the contestant who caught the attention of the world in Britain’s TV talent show – Britain’s Got Talent. She wasn’t your average – wait, she was your average-looking singer. She wasn’t this polished, made-up and groomed mega-star like Beyoncé – or whatever she’s […]
God calls us to lead lives of holiness. Jesus gave the most perfect example with his own life. But he gave us other examples of holiness in his own mother, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Saints are people to whom we can relate, essentially role models for the faithful. Saints do not forget those […]
We know that every effort to better society, especially where injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us. Archbishop Oscar Romero March 24, 1980 Last homily before he was martyred for the people of El Salvador
“Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — Emily Dickinson