Our Lady of Lourdes
Check out this live webcam of Lourdes and save it to your favorites….it is so powerful and can be a great tool for focussed prayer.http://www.lourdes-radio.com/player_live/player_live_en/player-token_en.php#
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
Last week I started the 19th Annotation Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Our assignment, before we actually begin the retreat, was to create a space where we can quiet ourselves so that we can be focused in prayer and reflection. This exercise made me think about the idea of “creating space” not just…
We all know people in our lives that we look at and wonder how they can remain so graceful. My grandmother was one of those people, a farmers wife and daughter, hard working, lived through WWI and WWII, Vietnam, and other conflicts, the Great Depression, raising kids before antibiotics, living in the oftentimes unforgivable terrain…
“In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.” Luke 26-27In most pictures depicting the annunciation, there is an angel floating above where Mary lay clearly…
As I mentioned in the first post, Madeleva gathered people in the kitchen and around the table. It was there that we were usually transported by her stories of her latest travel adventures, political undertakings or guest experiences. I looked forward to each meal, I was generally mesmerized and listened with intent while trying not…
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord!” Isn’t that what John the Baptist says before his cousin comes to be baptised?? “Prepare ye the way of the Lord” Beyond the Godspell song, something in this qoute resonates in me. Something calls me to repeat within my heart. I think it is the invitation that…
I will be completely honest, I have no concept of time outside of the “to-do” list at this point. The past weekend found us hosting our annual cookie exchange and trying to celebrate Christmas with the kids in my program. My daughter returned from college and my husband completed his first semester as a professor…