“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” – St. Augustine of Hippo I am often restless. It used to be that I was restless without being aware that I was restless. I was too busy trying to distract myself with activity, entertainment, or company […]
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Hands Wide Open
Letting go – not because there is no choice (as I was wont to do in the past) but because it gives me joy and freedom to bless others with the same freedom with which I am loved. That is the freedom that God gives me every day… The freedom to make mistakes, to repent, […]
Mother’s Day
To mothers near, to mothers far; To mothers here, to mothers no longer with us; To mothers who love tenderly, to mothers who scold us fiercely. To mothers when they were our idols, to mothers when they were our enemies; To mothers when we couldn’t sleep without their embrace, to mothers when we couldn’t wait […]
Mercy
Agnus Dei by Francisco de Zurbarán Mercy is love with real depth. It is a love that is able to bear the great tension between the holiness of God and sin. It is not rigid and unforgiving, but neither does it bend and change with the wind. Mercy is love rooted in Truth and enlarged beyond […]
An Easter Reflection
One cannot proclaim the Risen Christ merely with words; others must see the Risen Christ in our lives. They must see us diseased, but now healed; Blind, but now with sight; Mute, but now speaking boldly; Captive, but now set free; Dead, but now fully alive. To believe in the Risen Christ is not an […]
Holy Saturday
Today the Earth is silent as she contemplates her Creator entombed within her womb. Beyond grief, Beyond regret, Beyond shame. Beyond agony, Beyond doubt, Beyond all thought. Here in the garden tomb there is nothing more to see or hear or touch. So let us fold the wings of our intellect for an eternal moment; Mute, let […]
Good Friday
In what seemed to be the blink of an eye, the world as they had come to know it changed. The master became their servant; The Rabbi has become the convict; The hands that healed the sick and fed the hungry will be pierced and pinned to the cross; The One whom even the winds […]
Taking one step at a time
There was once, when I was In Primary 1 or 2, that I happened to pick up a Primary 6 Mathematics textbook in a bookstore to browse. I was very quiet afterwards and deep in thought. Seeing my troubled expression, my mother asked me what the matter was, and I told her (with great gravity and […]
“Not me, Lord, surely?”
And while they were eating he said, ‘In truth I tell you, one of you is about to betray me.’ They were greatly distressed and started asking him in turn, ‘Not me, Lord, surely?’ – Matthew 26:21-22 It wasn’t that long ago that, if Jesus had turned to me and told me that I was […]
‘Friend’
Catherine Doherty & Dorothy Day Who are the ones who will exhort me, encourage me, comfort me; Who will reprimand me, push me, and love me into the best possible version of myself? Who are the ones who will see me as I really am, and love me, but love me too much to leave […]
