Daily Meditation for May 9, 2022
“Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). The 50 days spanning Easter to Pentecost are celebrated in the Catholic Church as […]
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“Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). The 50 days spanning Easter to Pentecost are celebrated in the Catholic Church as […]
In Niall Williams’ novel This Is Happiness, a teenage boy has come to live with his grandparents in a small, backwards village in the west of Ireland. Even though he […]
The month of graduation holds a mixture of glad and sad feelings. Glad, because one part of our formal education has been successfully completed. And sad, because we will not […]
For years, we sisters have been writing these short reflections for radio, and sometimes wonder who listens to them or reads them as they appear on our Saint Benedict’s Monastery […]
Two apostles are honored today, men privileged to have known and seen Jesus pre and post-Resurrection. Like their fellow apostles and all Jesus’ disciples, they were to be witnesses to […]
Luscious in its beauty and in the hope of warmer and longer days, May is a month of new life, renewed spirits and itchy eyes for those with allergies. Over […]
The gardeners and farmers among us will soon be busy into the planting season. They have the sacred task of taking seeds that are so dry and tiny and dead […]
This later April time swings from endings to beginnings. We’ve said “goodbye” to winter and are easing into springtime. For Christian people, the Lenten season has ended and they are […]
When we attend Mass, we are at a banquet where we are offered Holy Communion, or Eucharist. But at the end of the service, do any of us pay the […]
St. Augustine once said, “A Christian should be an ALLELUIA from head to foot.” Being an alleluia is not always easy, especially when we hear daily news about suffering and […]
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