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“Please prepare a guest room for me.” I like to think that Philemon and Apphia were joyful at the thought of Paul visiting them and would have happily prepared a room for him.
At a restaurant recently, I looked around at all the people seated nearby. And though I will never know them—or even see them again—I thought about how we are sharing a sacred moment.
Saint Hildegard of Bingen used the term viriditas to describe the energy of the sun transformed by plants into growth and life. While we can observe it in gardens and forests, Hildegard believed we could also cultivate it in our souls, as God constantly co-creates us.
Padre Pio nurtured his love for the Mother of Jesus from the time he was a child. He would go to the church in Pietrelcina to greet and to pray to Our Lady of Graces.
Grief is hardly a pleasant or welcome emotional state, and yet, if we’re blessed to live long enough, all of us have to face it at different times in our lives.
Blessed Onesimus was a runaway slave in the New Testament. Despite this distressing situation, he ultimately became known as a holy one in the early Church. It was St. Paul who gave Onesimus guidance and encouragement.
The promise of Easter doesn’t end on Easter Sunday. The promise of life is a constant that is shared with us every day, through the ways in which our faith interacts with our daily lives. Saint John Paul II reminds us, “We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!”
If winter is the time for stillness and introspection, spring is the season for awakening—for stretching our legs and exploring the world.
The cross—a symbol that once meant shame has been remade into a sign of Christ’s glory. Take comfort in that truth today and find peace in it.
Yesterday, we mourned Christ’s death. Tomorrow, we will celebrate his Resurrection. Today, we pause somewhere in between.
