Gather Up the Fragments
Reflect In the “Multiplication of the Loaves” Jesus fed the crowd, and when there was bread left over he instructed, “Gather the fragments.” Think of aspects of your past that can still be healed. Pray God, if I think about …
Grace in Asking for Help
There’s a Mary that’s gotten me through the recent hard times, having found myself so exhausted and desperate for the simplest of images, when prayer becomes too hard. Mary Untier of Knots is a painting from 1700 Germany by Johann …
Sharing the Word for March 10, 2023
Friday of the Second Week of Lent March 10, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Psalm 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21 Today’s reflection is based on Psalm 105. Today’s Responsorial Psalm and First Reading give us the story of Joseph. In a time …
Lent with St. Clare: Second Friday
Clare shared her faith and wisdom with so many outside San Damiano and far beyond her own time. Indeed, she counseled and nursed an ailing Francis during one of his visits. How might we be in service to others?
Vatican accepts ‘positio’ in Mother Lange’s cause; dicastery to review documents on her life
ARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) — The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world’s first sustained women’s religious community for Black women, has taken a step forward. Sister Rita Michelle Proctor, superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters …