Carlo Acutis and the Gift of Presence
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Often attributed to John Lennon, this quote from American journalist Allen Saunders speaks to me especially this week of April 21, 2025, as I write this piece...
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Novena to Saint Clare | Day One: Outside Our Comfort Zone
At the young age of 18, Clare walked away from her life of nobility and all of its comforts and joined Saint Francis in living out his mission.
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: From Holy Life to Eternal Life
“Eternal life: passing from time to eternity, from transitory struggling for existence common to mortals, to the destiny we trust, where anxiety and struggling for existence give place to confidence and union with every ideal ever dreamed of.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: A Creative Spirituality
“We do well to remember how very short, after all, it is till our suffering and our time of merit, too, will be over. Let us offer everything, therefore, to the divine Spouse of our souls, that He may accept ...
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: An Attitude of Gratitude
“Would that we were appreciative as we ought to be! How happy we would be simply in our creation and the faculties we are endowed with and the divine promises of eternal reward.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: A Prophetic Friar
“Happiness in this world consists in the hopes we foster. Little children are happy in the vivid hopes that animate them.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: Holy Witness to History
“Many are the rainbows, the sunbursts, the gentle breezes—and the hailstorms—we are liable to meet before, by the grace of God, we shall be able to tumble into our graves.”
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