Two weekends ago, citizens in our country and around the world experienced something that we thought was in our past: torch-bearing white supremacists shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans at the citizens of Charlottesville, VA; a car driven by a Nazi sympathizer killing one person and seriously injuring 19 others; people carrying Nazi flags and giving the Nazi salute. […]
In one of his daily meditation Bishop Sam Jacobs make a distinction between aloneness and loneliness. […]
A reader sent me the following article entitled the “Laws of Occurrences.” […]
A five-year-old girl named Jenny was waiting with her mother at a checkout counter. She suddenly noticed some shiny white pearls in a foil box. “Oh, Mommy, please. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?” […]
I have an American birth certificate and an official passport that declare that I am a citizen of the United States. However, as St. Paul reminds us, “Our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Phil. 3:20) A letter to Diognetus written at the end of the fourth century, describes our status in the world. […]
The following are some great quotations from the spiritual giants of the past and present. […]
My brother, Br. Terry Todd, S.J., gave the eulogy at my mother’s (Charlotte Todd’s) funeral. The following is a summary of his reflection. […]
My mother, Charlotte Lozes Todd, lived to be 100 years old and died on Holy Thursday, April 13, 2017. […]
Before Jesus left this earth, he commissioned his followers, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. […]
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