Daily Meditation for November 28, 2024
What’s left? The answer to this question can lead to deepest grief and despair in troubled times. But not always. Sometimes the answer to that question can lead to unexpected […]
Entries by Alyssa Tasto
Daily Meditation for November 27, 2024
The migration of large population groups from one geographic area to another has been a perennial feature of life on earth. But generous people all over the world are stepping […]
Thanking You
Thank you! Our first attempt at connection continued daily as our eyes met. After many years we spoke without words. “Thank you,” we whispered with our eyes. A space of […]
Daily Meditation for November 26, 2024
Warsan Shire, a young British writer, poet, editor and teacher, was born to Somali parents in Kenya. She wrote: “…I held an atlas in my lap, ran my fingers across […]
Daily Meditation for November 25, 2024
It seems that people are familiar with the saying, “Many hands make light work.” This quotation will prove itself during the upcoming gatherings of Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s at these […]
Growing in Wisdom
What joy: an afternoon with sisters to discuss being wise! I had been invited by Mary Stommes, oblate director and oblate of Saint Benedict’s Monastery, to speak at one of […]
Daily Meditation for November 22, 2024
Recent surveys report that more and more people are not going to church. When questioned, these folks have many good reasons for quitting church. They will say, “I don’t get […]
Daily Meditation for November 21, 2024
Today, November 21, commemorates the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child at the Temple in Jerusalem. Before Mary’s birth, her parents Joachim and Anne received […]
Daily Meditation for November 20, 2024
Mary’s mother, Grace, was living alone in her house since her husband had died and the children were all grown and living elsewhere. She was lonely and beginning to fall […]
Losing Something Precious
I am the kind of person who, at the end of the day, always puts my clothes away. My shoes have a special place, whether it is in the closet […]
