Daily Quote from St. John Chrysostom
Wherefore I choke with grief, that when so many blessings are laid before us, we are slothful, and despise them; we use every exertion to have splendid houses here, but how to gain in heaven so much as...
View ArticleCatholic Quote of the Day — from Pope Francis
“I feel many different emotions standing here at Ground Zero, where thousands of lives were taken in a senseless act of destruction. Here grief is palpable. The water we see flowing towards that empty...
View ArticleFacing the reality of death
I recently had a conversation with a coworker about mausoleums. I hadn’t experienced a mausoleum until my grandfather died. It wasn’t the first funeral of a grandparent I experienced, but it was the...
View ArticleThe Human Side of Mary: Our Lady of Tears
I had seen the various mothers in my life cry many times, but it wasn’t until I went to make funeral arrangements with my mother-in-law that I glimpsed a portion of the tears Mary must have shed during...
View ArticleA Grief Answered
This weekend we celebrate back-to-back feast days of two great saints, Monica and Augustine. There are few saint stories as legendary as this one: the mother who prays for decades for the conversion...
View ArticleYour Daily Bible Verses — 2 Corinthians 7:10
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death. – 2 Corinthians 7:10 Please help...
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