Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Remember the explanation you received as a child about the Last Judgment?  For readers unfamiliar, I offer this.  Your mother, or your baby-sitter, or your teacher…any adult in charge of you knew just what to say to get your obedient attention.  “Mary Ann, when you appear before God, all this terrible behavior will be disclosed,... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com When I taught high school, a Jewish girl enrolled. She had been struggling to find her place in a public school and heard about our all-girls Catholic school and decided to give it a try. She became very popular and was the star in our musicals leading to a professional career in dance. The first Ash... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com If you’re like me, you think you are not racist.  Not in the least!  You are open-minded.  You have Black and Hispanic friends.  You love Black and Hispanic entertainers and athletes.  You recoil at the treatment of unarmed Black persons at the hands of white law enforcement.  You readily acknowledge the inequity of... Continue Reading →

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 →