Someone invited me to join a young adult group today and my heart skipped a beat at the thought that I am still young. Youth is in the eye of the beholder, but numbers are numbers. Though I’m a bit ahead of schedule for a mid-life crisis, I’ve always been advanced when it comes toContinue reading >>
Around this time a few years ago I was trudging through winter weather to get to a rehearsal on a weeknight and I thought to myself “It’s amazing that we ask the same things of ourselves during cold New England winters as we do during the summers.” There is a reason some animals hibernate. TheContinue reading >>
Last Sunday I read an article titled “Is the Catholic Church irredeemable?” I thought maybe I would write something on the topic, but then there was another article to read, this time about abusive nuns, then about hypocritical priests, then about bishops who failed to protect children, then about closing parishes, and then there wasContinue reading >>
To you we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to you we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Quite close to St Ignatius’s childhood home in Loyola is a shrine to Our Lady of Olatz. He is believed to have visited this shrine as a boy, and again onContinue reading >>
Once we he was going out of devotion to a church situated a little more than a mile from Manresa…as he went along occupied with his devotions, he sat for a little while with his facd toward the river which ran down below. While he was seated there, the eyes of his understanding began toContinue reading >>
