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It’s October, and the long sunlight in the afternoons and the coming chill in the air sing the approach of autumn. Fall has always been my favorite season, with hayrides and visits to the apple orchards south of Chicago with my family. It brings me deep joy.
Thérèse has much to teach our age of the image, the appearance, the “self.”
Mother Marie de Gonzague, the superior at the cloistered convent at Carmel, wrote this of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Tall and strong, with the air of a child, with a tone of voice and an expression that hide in her the wisdom.”
The young religious sister whom Saint Pius X described as “the greatest saint of modern times,” spent nine years in a cloistered convent in northern France.
Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, reviews Parasite, Spider in the Web, and Don’t Be Nice.
It’s not a new question, but it has become more personal and pointed in light of the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal.
I have a very rare and painful illness that has left me handicapped. I have trouble finding rides to doctors’ offices and to church.
Consequently, I feel very disconnected from my parish in which I once served as a catechist and director of religious education. I do some adult education from my home. My chemo schedule makes attending weekend Masses problematic, but I could go to some weekday Masses if I had a ride. Any suggestions?
Can a Catholic be pro-choice? I am a practicing Catholic who is very pro-life. I know several Catholic women who are pro-choice. I’m an old man who thinks this is a contradiction.
“One thing I ask of the LORD;
this I seek:
To dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD and contemplate his temple.”
(Psalm 27:4)
The Little Flower left a legacy of love and faith still cherished to this day.
