Daily Meditation for April 30, 2025
Here is a wisdom statement from the Buddhist tradition: “Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find […]
Entries by Alyssa Tasto
Would There be an Easter?
Saint Benedict’s Monastery asked us to think about HOPE during Lent. Every Monday, one could receive a sister’s reflections on hope. I purposely did not request an email. I wanted […]
Daily Meditation for April 29, 2025
Concern for the common good—the community, rather than oneself—is the focus of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter four, verses 32–37. We are presented with a picture of the early […]
Daily Meditation for April 28, 2025
“Old is when you give up, until then you are spectacular” (anon). The wise person who said this gives us a new perspective on aging. Untold billions are spent trying […]
Daily Meditation for April 25, 2025
Hug a tree today! J. Sterling Morton, a Nebraska journalist and advocate for tree planting, proposed the idea of a tree-planting holiday, which became known as Arbor Day. The first […]
Daily Meditation for April 24, 2025
Minnesota poet Michael Dennis Browne speaks of poetry as a model for holding contradictions in tension. He suggests that we need to honor the contradictions in our lives rather than […]
Daily Meditation for April 23, 2025
“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely a tree,” so wrote Joyce Kilmer a century ago. Jesus would agree, as the Gospel reminds us that he […]
Reflection of a Parish
Fifty days after Easter we have the electrifying arrival of Pentecost! Scripture gives us the story of that first coming of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles by […]
Daily Meditation for April 22, 2025
Today, Jesus appears to Mary at the tomb. She didn’t recognize him at first, she did not see him. Her heart was broken; she was full of grief. She did […]
Daily Meditation for April 21, 2025
As we Catholics live into the holy Year of Hope, it is a good time to reflect on hope in the many ways we count on it in our daily […]
