As that first light passed through the child’s newly clear black pupils, it called forth no echoing image from within. His sight, Zajonc tells us, began as a hollow, silent, dark and frightening kind of seeing. The light of day beckoned, but no light of mind replied within the boy’s...
The World Day of Peace is observed each year on January 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Since its establishment in 1967 by Pope St Paul VI, the Popes have taken the occasion to offer magisterial reflections in Messages for the day, dealing with topics such as the United Nations...
just took off and caught a freight (they say). He’s discussed each year when the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in the clan, he is an empty space. My father’s mother, who is 93, and who keeps the Family Bible with everybody’s birth...
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother. — Boyd K. Packer 51 What Is God's Faith Quotes You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all m...
Hail Mary: Sigourney Weaver's Starring Role in Prayers for Bobby-The True Story of Mary Griffith, a Religious Mother Who Drives Her Gay Son to Suicide-Is a Far Cry from Her More Notorious Turn as the Panty-Clad, Flame-Throwing Lieutenant Ripley, but This Is One Actress Who Still Knows ...
Before you were in your mother’s womb, He knew you and planned for every step of your life. Now get ready; it was only the beginning of His unfolding Plan for your life. Forget the last Birthday you had; God saved the best for last! Full of wonderful surprises, His “suddenlies”...
Stained glass window light paints the south chancel aisle near the steps to St. Cuthbert’s tomb. The Sorrowful Mother, part of Fenwick Lawson’sPieta(1974-1981), in the east end of Durham Cathedral. When the beech wood sculpture was on loan to York Minster in the 1980s, a fire in th...
and our children as well. We’re the ‘walking wounded,’ battle-scarred by desires we’ve carried throughout our lives. More than once I’ve lugged a wounded father on my back up Rockpile Mountain. Father and mother wounds are handed down to us, filled with frustrated desires we still...
These are beautiful and consoling prayers on the verge of sleep. However, at the end of any given day, not everyone is having a peaceful night and a perfect end. There are many “who work, or watch, or weep this night.” Our own day is not truly complete until we gather them also...
just another good day of eternal life.[vii] Anise Stevens, my sister’s child, left us far too soon at age 49. She died in the first minute of dawn on New Year’s Day, 2019. Through my tears, I preached“Trailing clouds of glory”at her requiem. ...