Winter 2025
DIFFERENCES
Lately it seems that all we hear about is how divided we are in this country, and how different our opinions are on all sorts of things. With such deep differences and divisions, how are we able to hold together?
DIFFERENCES
Lately it seems that all we hear about is how divided we are in this country, and how different our opinions are on all sorts of things. With such deep differences and divisions, how are we able to hold together?
FAITH…OR FEAR? From time to time each one of us can confront a dilemma: do we step out and act from a perspective of faith? Or do we instead act out of a senseof fear? Occasionally the fear is telling us something important. Occasionally it is warning us that we’re about to lose our way,…
Recent events in the Middle East, especially in Egypt and elsewhere, have inspired and exhilarated the entire world. What an amazing and transformative outpouring of courage, tenacity and hope we have all witnessed on our TV, computer and cell phone screens! What an example of heroism, persistence, and patience. What a remarkable and incredibly peaceful…
THE WINTER FROM HELL What to do when everything is challenging, everything seems bleak. What to do? Spring 2026 newsletter in PDF (7.1MB)
My One Companion is … darkness. We want joy, peace, happiness. But when these are unattainable, is it possible to make darkness, sadness, grief our companions? Summer 2019 Newsletter in PDF format (1.3MB)
We who do believe can seem like fools. We live in a world in which so much is diametrically opposed to the values of the Gospels
PRAYING Perhaps most of us learned as children to pray by way of the Our Father or Hail Mary or the Rosary, or the Divine Mercy chaplet. We were taught that this was how to pray. Perhaps we never were taught, never learned, anything beyond that—yet now that is not enough. Winter 2022 Newsletter PDF