Photo credit: StockFreeImages.com Have you heard about the two new residents of the White House that even have Republicans cooing and blushing with adoration?  Yep.  I’m talking about the two new First Dogs, Champ and Major, not the President and First Lady.  Here is a conversation they had the other day when Champ was orienting Major into political... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com We can start the healing process anytime in life.  But the first step is probably the hardest.  If you are diagnosed with an illness, you cannot begin to heal until you admit to the diagnosis.  Healing is sought after for physical, mental, psychological, and spiritual illnesses.  Admitting an illness is the first of twelve steps required... Continue Reading →

I loved going there every Saturday morning even when the snow of Northeast Ohio dared us to penetrate a sheet of pre-dawn darkness as we careened, mutely, along icy country roads leading to a small parish whose children waited for catechism class to begin. I taught fourth, fifth, and sixth grades while the other two... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Like many of you, I have been cleaning and organizing everything from family photographs to professional files during this isolation period. I think it’s Providence that I came across a folder long forgotten and tucked away to be studied on a future rainy day. The rainy day had come. My godmother, Mary Louise Hiller, whom... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com This week I faced a dilemma. How could I extract meaning from the terrible events of Wednesday, January 6, and write on a gentle, peace loving woman who became America’s first Roman Catholic saint and whose feast day was celebrated on January 4?   Elizabeth Ann Seton is the foundress of an American congregation of Sisters, now... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Have you already dropped the ball on a resolution or two for the year 2021? I have. That box of homemade cookies practically begged me to indulge! (Don’t want them to get stale!) And I conveniently misplaced the therapy paper with the exercises for my wounded foot! Yep, I hear you. Only a few hours old... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Pixabay.com Here comes 2021!  And it can’t get here fast enough!  We are thinking it will be better as we look back on the wreckage of this year.  I get overwhelmed thinking of and knowing people who have been suffering immeasurable heartache this year.  Thinking of people tearing at the veil between life and the shadow of death... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com This is the fourth week of our efforts to make a special Advent through the practice of eremitical prayer, the prayer of the hermit. I promised you a surprise and here it is. On the day this blog is published, December 21, our universe will experience what is called the Great Conjunction,... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Let’s say you are not Catholic, or Christian, or even a believer in any faith tradition. Or, let’s say you are Catholic, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, or a believer in any faith tradition including a spirituality focused on the mysteries of nature and the cosmos. None of this matters when it comes to meditation and prayer. All of us appreciate... Continue Reading →