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.
Today I received the most wonderful text; my friend is healed. She had been diagnosed with cancer a second time several months back but her doctor was aggressive and went right in. Now, several truly grueling months later, she is cancer free. She has been an inspiration and her Irish was showing through as she wouldn’t…
Today is a day for Mary. Something that not every Christian agrees on but one that I think makes perfect sense. A day set aside to honor the person that God chose to be immaculate and to be the perfect vessel for the Incarnation. Whatever the story that Mary’s life takes after this is really…
It is hard not to see God on days like today. When I am woken up with loving faces and intentions. My favorite mug of coffee, the meds I need to take first thing, hugs kisses and songs. It is not a hard day at all, when as we end it as a day of…
I feel like I am in “All Martin, all the time” mode but I stick with one writer and then I move on so bear with me in today’s thought.While I was filling in yesterday at the Diocesean Faith Formation Office, I was wandering around and happened to find James Martin, SJ’s book on 9/11 called…
“Pray without ceasing”Someone introduced me to the Tibetan Prayer Flag today. It is a clothesline concept with sheets of fabric and Tibetan prayers written on them and the idea is that when the wind blows the prayers are sent out into the world. I love this idea and there is no reason why if you aren’t comfortable with…
**This is an updated post from 2013 so this documentary has been out for awhile but I think it is a great representation of what silence can do for us, totally time to watch!** The Big Silence: Part 1 Awhile back, James Martin Sj posted this on his Facebook page and I had to share…