Minute Meditations
The Impermanence of Our Lives
Maureen O'Brien
March 12, 2023
I’ve lived my whole life trying to figure out how to outmaneuver suffering; yes, how to fly away. But I have no wings. What if …
Art and the Holy
Maureen O'Brien
March 11, 2023
I turn to art, as I always do, in trying to understand the holy. The first thing that came to me initially as I dove into the miracle of the loaves and fishes was a perfect carving of two identical ...
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Mapping the Everyday Sacred
Maureen O'Brien
March 9, 2023
I rely on certain passages from the psalms as my daily guide; most essentially, the words from Psalm 119:105: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.” At the end of 2021, as I was ...
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Like a Firefly
Maureen O'Brien
March 7, 2023
It’s late July. The Northeast is rolling with the peapod-scent of cornstalks rising and clouds reflect with perfect symmetry in the stillness of the reservoirs. Two of my friends have shared with me their epiphanies of a sort, of seeing ...
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Ordinary and Extraordinary
Diane M. Houdek
March 5, 2023
The transfiguration was an extraordinary moment. Such moments don’t happen very often. But when they do, they change everything.
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Taming the Wolf
Diane M. Houdek
March 3, 2023
The wolf of Gubbio is a reminder to us that we need to confront our fears and anger, taming them with the love of God.
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The Gift of Alms
Diane M. Houdek
March 2, 2023
It is hard to depend on other people. We feel ashamed when we are in need and in turn shame those who need help from others, especially if they are “undeserving.”
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