Entries for May 2021

June 24, 2017 By Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg Source As a small child, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, 1647-1690, preferred prayer and contemplation over childish play, owing perhaps to the extraordinary virtue of her parents. However, she had heavy burdens from her earliest years. She lost her fa...

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Embrace The Joyful Chaos! by Drew and Katie Taylor Source Historically the Rosary is a simple alternative to the Liturgy of the Hours. If you couldn’t read or afford the book, these prayers allowed for the lay or common man to enter into contemplative, daily prayer reflecting over the l...

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Sonja Morin Published: May 14, 2021 Source You hear it all the time – the endless list of tips on how to protect your physical health. Practices for maintaining spiritual health are shared by our parish priests, and those in our faith community. Thankfully, a third vein of advice is arriv...

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Stacy A. Trasancos Published: May 17, 2021 Source Being a convert and a chemist, I am a visual person. I need models and images to picture in my mind, much like a scaffolding, so I can build understanding of an abstract concept. This is what we do when we draw atoms with nuclei and whirling ele...

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Source “Endurance is the essence of courage. Endurance is not passivity, for it requires a strong, proactive spirit. In endurance, man’s inmost and deepest strength reveals itself. It can be harder and entail greater courage for a soldier to be pinned down in a cold, damp foxhole...

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(Hint: It’s Not a Necklace) Becky Roach Source You probably have a rosary lying around your house somewhere.  Maybe you received it as a Confirmation gift or picked one up when the sweet old lady was passing them out at church, but you don’t really know what to do with it. &n...

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Marigina Bruno Source It was in Rome, towards the end of the eighteenth century, one fine evening in May. A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which a lamp was burning, as is the custom in that holy city. There, these fresh young voices ...

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Source It would be very strange if a child ever whipped out his checkbook to reimburse his parents for bringing him to life. One could try to put a dollar amount on the medical bills, the nursery expenses, the food consumed, the diapers ruined, the hourly rate of the parent. But this is all an ob...

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Dr. Donald DeMarco Published: May 11, 2021 Source Simon and Garfunkel’s 1968 hit song, Mrs. Robinson, includes the phrase, “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” The question puzzled the Yankee Clipper. “I have not gone anywhere,” he said, “I’ve always be...

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