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Q. During Advent we hear Gospel readings about John the Baptist and his ministry. This month we celebrate Jesus’ Baptism by John. This, however, was not a Jewish practice, was it? Why was John baptizing in the first place?
It is difficult to say if my love for all creatures, great and small, developed because I was named after Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. Or if I was born with an innate understanding of Saint Francis’ deep love for animals, the environment, and life.
Mired in grief over the loss of her husband, this college professor found a kindred spirit in another widow: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
This Lent, allow prayer, fasting and works of compassion to challenge whatever is keeping you from God.
Prodigal son, forgiving father, resentful brother: there is something here for each of us.
After 35 years of marriage, we look back and see clearly how the wisdom of others has shaped us. We have benefited from many stakeholders who opened their lives to us to witness their love through good, bad, fun, tragic holy times.
To speak of death aloud would have been a betrayal to our mother. Instead, by way of tacit agreement, an unspoken understanding developed among us an agreement that occasionally prompted us to make secretive and worried eye contact in a way that neither Mom nor Dad would detect.
Margaret Mitchell, the Atlanta-born author of Gone with the Wind, relied on her Catholic upbringing when she wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
