Kate Spade committed suicide by hanging herself with a red scarf in her upscale NYC apartment last Tuesday morning. Tuesday was a beautiful day in New York City. The sun was shining; the temperature was ideal in the mid 70’s. A new week was still unfolding, yet in Kate Spade’s world, something sinister was unfolding …
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The morning of Marian Consecration filled with an an odd combination of Peace, Joy, excitement and I can’t explain what. It was a combination of absolute ecstatic energy and utterly calm peacefulness. Consecration was more right than anything I had ever done. I was sure of it in a way that’s impossible to explain. On a …
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All seemed right with my little corner of the world. I was Mom to five fantastic little boys, including one I still carried inside me. We were building a home in a great little town and had made friends quickly when we moved in. I had just landed my ideal job as part-time youth minister of our …
Gift of My Husband’s Sudden Abandonment: Don’t Be Left Behind When it REALLY Counts! Read More »
I’ve been told many times by many people that they wish they had my faith or that they admire my faith. It sometimes seems as though they think faith is a gift I’ve been uniquely given, but the priest at last Sunday’s Mass had a definition of faith that helped clarify what I can never …
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The Cornerstone. In Sunday’s Gospel, the Parable of the Tenants, Christ speaks of the Cornerstone as being rejected by the builders. Leading up to his recitation of earlier Scriptures, He tells the Parable of the Tenants. First, we see the landowner send his servants out to collect from the tenants; we see the tenants cruelly murder …
Pain. It’s something each of us experiences in some form during our lives. Some of us will experience it more than others, and some of us, who think we suffer greatly here, cannot begin to fathom the pain that occurs to men and women in our exact situation but living somewhere else, say in a …
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Sometimes it’s hard to be a single mom smiling and today I blew it. My husband and I had almost completed our big, beautiful dream home when he left. He is a carpenter which allowed us do a lot of the work ourselves so, even though we had been living in the house for about five …
Rick Santorum used a C.S. Lewis quote about true friendship last night. Following the Iowa caucus, Santorum said, “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” What a beautiful message. C.S. Lewis’ and Rick Santroum have both displayed a strong …
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