04 Sep

Desire

How often do we desire to be someone/something other than what we are?...

03 Sep

Talking With Francky

"When I’m sometimes automatically being judgmental, or nursing old resentments about past hurts, I think “that’s my ego, that’s the other standard.” "...

02 Sep

"It was her role in restoring the papacy to Rome, however, that earned her a paramount place in church history. At her urging and persuasion, Pope Gregory XI, moved back to Rome after an absence of seventy years. "...

01 Sep

Not a ‘birder’

"(It was believed the pelican pierced its own breast to feed its young with its blood.)"...

31 Aug

The Summer of 2021

"This summer of 2021 has had its share of ups and downs., consolations and desolations, pains and hopes."...

30 Aug

My Mother and Old Age

"God has compassion for the “undeserving” as much as the “deserving”. God knows them more than they know themselves. God knows their pain. God suffers with them. God embraces them and invites them in." ...

29 Aug

Hypocrisy – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

“This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me …” Is there harmony between what I say and what I do?...

28 Aug

The Communion of Saints

"For me this came to mean that, since I was one of the Militant, I could pray TO the Triumphant and FOR the Suffering and the other Militant and that we all worked together in a mysterious but very real way." ...