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(Apologies and gratitude to St. Ignatius of Loyola who included the original Anima Christi prayer as part of his Spiritual Exercises and which was the inspiration for this reflection.) Dogwood flowers dance on the fingertips of branches at the touch of a breeze. Each mandala blossom turned skyward gazes…
… sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation … and with the grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill now once more the hearts of believers. … [opening prayer]. Today is called the birthday of the Church. … May the glory (the works)…
The other night, or rather very early morning, I awoke in my turning and my eye caught a bright sliver of light cutting across my blanket. Because it enters my room differently, I knew it wasn’t the motion-sensor security light outside my window that the wind or an occasional deer…
“I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always … I will not leave you orphans.” What an insight into God’s character this passage gives! Our God loves us so much that he cannot bear that we might feel abandoned or orphaned.…
A challenge is given us in our second reading this weekend: “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence…” (1 Peter 3:15). Our society has become less explicitly religious in recent decades. Depending…
This Mother’s Day falls on my great-aunt’s birthday. Ella Dolan was “Auntie” to my mother’s generation and later to mine. Never married, she nursed my sickly grandmother and kept house for the family. She was the one who cooked Sunday dinner for the whole clan; made sure that, on someone’s…
Today our second reading is a wonderful Scripture for Mother’s Day! In it we are invited to come to the Lord, a living stone, and to let ourselves “like living stones … be built into a spiritual house” (1 Pet 2:4-9). Both Hebrew Scripture and our Christian Scripture use rocks,…
Notice three intertwined images in Sunday’s Gospel about the Good Shepherd. There is the image of the sheep, who have such an intimate relationship with the shepherd that they can pick out his voice from among others and follow only him to safe pasture. There is the image of the…
I noticed one afternoon a rustling in my pansy flower planter on my balcony porch. Out flies a wren. As I watched another wren appeared with a decomposing leaf. They are building a nest for their new family. So, what about my pansies? Do I try watering them carefully not…
And he said to them … was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? The disciples who met Jesus on the road did not expect the messiah to die. Indeed, why Jesus had to die is a question that has puzzled people…
