Archive for November 2021

Harry S. Truman claimed: “There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty to live on happily and to be at peace with his neighbors.” As Christmas approaches, numerous organizations, schools, and towns collect toys, clothes, and food. Gifts for the less fortunate fill semis, overflow collection areas, and fill car trunks in…

Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others.” How is gratitude the progenitor of all the other virtues? Probably because the focus is not on ourselves. We have done little or nothing to receive our material and spiritual gifts. Moving the focus away from ourselves to…

Throughout his journeys Jesus freed people of their sin, shame, or illness. He freed the lame, the blind, the adulteress, the miserly to start a new future. Perhaps in that momentary encounter these persons let go of the past, not letting anything hinder their new future, their new perspective, the new hope and dreams Jesus…

Whenever our community of three sits down to watch news, we choose a channel that nightly ends with a heart-warming story of altruism. It’s those last two minutes of good deeds, those selfless acts, the events that uplift others that offsets a bit the tragedies of the previous 25 minutes. Ilia Delio writes: “The more…

Our Immaculate Conception Province (AKA SNDUSA) is blessed with a marvelous leader. Sister Margaret Mary Gorman has spent the past week in the Toledo area. Our little community of three in Waterville, Ohio, was pleased to have dinner with her one evening. Conversation was relaxed, nothing forced or artificial, yet appropriately deep and light in…

Ours in an “incarnational” spirituality-A way of prayer and living like that of the Word incarnate,Like that of God being everything human (except sin, of course).We are called to incarnate the love of our good God who sees everything as good.We see God in all things. We see good in all things. We see the…

It matters how near we are—But then again it doesn’t.Relationships are.Bonds are circles—just circles—Not Venn diagrams of who loves whomOr squares where some can be pushed into a corner.Bonds are circles forged by sharing sorrow, bearing another’s pain,Bonds of need and longing,Bonds of laughter, bonds of tears when words fail,Bonds of conversation deep into the…