Walking out side in the spring, sitting on the bleachers to watch an inning of a little league game; seeing the life of little children, touching all the flowers, and listening to the birds. It is all so beautiful, but the longing for life is overwhelming it is like a longing that can stop me [...]
On this feast day of Saint Therese, we remember that she suffered excruciating pain, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Suffering pain from tuberculosis, suffering rejection and constant misunderstanding, feeling profoundly her own weakness, and feeling cut off from God…all these made up the awful morass of suffering in which she continually lived. Traveling through this earth [...]
Prayer is as varied as the person doing the prayer. There are many forms and formulas of prayers but they acquire distinct differences because people and souls are different. What is prayer? How does one pray? My intention is not to write a treatise on prayer! I am not an expert on prayer. But someone [...]
  --Prayer for the grace to live in nakedness and poverty in conformity to Christ… (By Lindy Morelli) When cold grief comes, She sits right down. She makes a home Inside your soul-- She settles in-- There, spreading out Her massive skirts, Which smother you. Like a thick, heavy blanket, [...]
"Dead End." This is the last thing I would want to see when I'm trying to find my way to a destination. It awakens a host of negative feelings inside me: disappointment over all the lost time spent driving around, anger because I'm late arriving, or fear because I don't know where I am and [...]
By LightSong “I am just so shocked at how alone I am,†said a friend recently when we last spoke. “I just can’t believe I am so very alone . . .†And I couldn’t help feeling that I understood. How many times in my own experience has this chilling killing feeling of loneliness come [...]
By Sr. Helena of Mary Devotion to St. Joseph was a hallmark of St. Teresa of Avila. Teresa attributed her miraculous cure to Saint Joseph. When she was living in the Incarnation Convent in Avila, she was struck with an ailment that left her half-dead. She was paralyzed and was presumed dead at one [...]
By Lindy Morelli “If today, you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart.†Psalm 95 Lent is a great and holy time to renew yourself in God…†she said, and I’ll never forget the impact of what that meant. Lent, a special time, a sacred season which we set carefully aside; a time to pray; [...]
By Sister Helena of Mary, O.Carm. In our Catholic liturgical calendar, the Lenten season opened with Ash Wednesday. I have never been to a desert. I have never seen one. I don’t believe this to be a unique experience. I have seen nice pictures of deserts, with sand and sun capturing the play of [...]
Psalm 1:2—3 “Blessed is the one…who meditates on the law of the Lord day and night; He shall be like a tree planted by streams of water; whose fruit does not fail and whose leaf does not wither…†Ephesians 3:14-19. “I kneel before the father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes [...]
