A retired Catholic teacher with a freelance writing stint, I love playing the best game on earth, hockey, or paddling kayaks on a river, lake, or ocean. My home is in the heart of Christ, held in the arms of His Mother who accompanies me when I receive the Eucharist. My seven kids range from 21 to 38 years old.
Posted in Resurrection, and ST. JOHN PAUL II
As a gift to humanity, which sometimes seems bewildered and overwhelmed by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the Risen Lord offers his love that pardons, reconciles and reopens hearts to love.
Posted in SACRED TRIDUUM, and ST. JOHN PAUL II
Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Passover Meal of Jesus Christ when he established the Holy Eucharist in the Upper Room with his disciples. There he…
Isaiah’s prophecy of Christ’s suffering and death is the flowing spring from which we should drink continually.
Posted in LIFE IN CHRIST
Despite fierce opposition from the Conservatives, who forced the Liberal government to seek a fourth and final extension to get the amendments finalized and into law, there’s no brake to stop what’s coming.
This excerpt is from Pope John Paul II’s homily at Yankee Stadium during his Apostolic Journey to the United States on October 2, 1979.
“Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you.”
Posted in LENT
Jesus shows us the bright horizon of living with a heart of love, like His. Yet, his disciples were probably downcast after hearing the demanding call to go beyond the Ten Commandments.
Posted in LENT
Jesus wants us to see the demon lurking and be its master through complete confidence in Him.
Posted in LENT
What takes place in our hearts and in our lives, is the most important battle going on in the world today.
The time has come for us to fast /days to grieve for sin are here./ God knows of what we’re made, /
Posted in LENT
Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.
Love refuses to be consoled when its goal proves impossible, despises all hindrances to the attainment of its object.
A leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.”
Mary is the one who believed and, from her womb, rivers of living water have flowed forth to irrigate human history.
