https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHh3nMMu-I&feature=youtu.be I discussed The Reed of God by the British writer and mystic, Caryll Houselander in my last post. It is a classic on the spirituality of advent with Mary as the focus. A word about Houselander might provide some encouragement about her mystical approach to spirituality and in advent in particular, an approach you and I can internalize. Houselander was only seven... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Jump For Joy by Corby Eisbacher Many years ago, and I mean many, I was a student at Siena Heights College (now University) enduring a bitterly cold Michigan winter and wondering what I could do for advent. The cold and wispy gray of the season inspired me to search for some appropriate advent reading when one of my Dominican... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Diocese of Camden I got to see the movie, It’s a Good Day in the Neighborhood, the wonderfully thoughtful narrative of how ‘radical kindness’ brought peace to a journalist who struggled to reconcile with his estranged father under the guidance of Fred Rogers, the American super star in children’s television. I mentioned in my last post that I had... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of Ironwood Custom Builders Michael Flippo - stock.adobe.com Let us take time to think of things we take for granted and to realize how precious they are for us. Let us ask for the gift of gratitude because then our hearts will be enlarged. I offer the following video to assist with this reflection.... Continue Reading →
Credit: AZ Quotes I can’t wait to see the new movie, It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, in which Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers, the iconic creator and performer of television’s long running childrens’ show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Reviews of the movie have been generally quite favorable recognizing Hanks’s interpretation of Fred Rogers for hisdrilling deeply into the psyche of a man who gently... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pexels I’ve been noticing that there appears a groundswell in discussions on the subject of charity and love with examples in nearly all platforms of the media. I think you may have noticed the same. Or, is it that since I’ve made this my blog theme, I am simply more attuned? What do... Continue Reading →
Paying it Forward A few weeks ago, I read of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Kenwood, Ohio, where senior pastor, Heidi Johns and associate pastor, Alex Hoops included a surprise for parishioners attending their Sunday services. One member from each family in attendance was invited to come to the sanctuary and pick an envelope at random. Inside... Continue Reading →
Mohican the red timber wolf among the retreatants (Mary Ann Flannery) We were gathered outside Living Waters Spirituality Center in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, anticipating something amazing as part of our week's retreat on "The Open Mindset and the Gift of Seeking." Seated in a circle and watching a torrid July sun fall slowly behind the Great... Continue Reading →
Charity Sr. Helen Therese Scasny examines a frame from her beehives. (LouAnn Rossi On any given summer morning, just as the sun slowly emerges from the eastern edge of our backyard, Sr. Helen Therese Scasny's beehives stir with activity, launching the day's agenda: foraging, pollinating, cleaning, communicating — all in the service of survival and,... Continue Reading →
“None of us can’t take a detour in spiritual growth blaming it on the distractions of the present milieu.”
In All Things Charity 