Continually Turned Toward God
This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Saint Therese Couderc, co-founder of the Cenacle Sisters. My group (five of us) entered the pre-novitiate on February 1, the birthday of the saint we call...
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I have been involved in Church music for a some time now, and the intense stage-fright I had at first has vanished. For the first few years, however, my sleep would occasionally be disturbed by what I...
View ArticleOrdinary Holiness
Sometimes when I am just dragging through my day, feeling weighed down by the realities of everyday life, I wish I could be lifted out of my nitty-gritty existence — be “caught up to the third heaven”...
View ArticleWho Are These, Clothed in White Robes?
Fashion is fickle. I went to STYLE.COM to find out what I should be anxious about this year (unlike the lilies of the field, who neither toil nor spin). I learned that my lips should be scarlet, and...
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Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me: Within thy wounds...
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Padre Pio
This is the feast day of Padre Pio (1887 – 1968), the Capuchin saint who received the stigmata, the marks of Christ’s wounds, on his own body. A wondrous gift this was, but Padre Pio was not overjoyed...
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Alien, Yet Kin
As the young Great Horned Owl and I gaze at each other, I am very much aware that he is both kin to me and radically other. Weeks ago, even when Mama Owl would answer my feeble “whoo-WHOO” with her...
View ArticleGiving Thanks
In a spirit of thankfulness let me recall the mercies you lavished on me, O my God; to you let me confess them. May I be flooded with love for you until my very bones cry out, “Who is like you, O...
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