Restoration
Written by Madonna House staff, Restoration is an essential part of our witness to the Gospel. Here we share our personal stories and reflections on the Gospel challenges of today, along with writings from Catherine Doherty and the Catholic Church.
Posted March 15, 2010 in My Story:
There Is a Hope in Hell
by a staff worker.
Perhaps you have heard the saying, "there isn’t a hope in hell," which refers to an impossible situation or problem. That line was certainly part of my vocabulary.
This past year, however, I have discovered hope emerging in my life and in the darkest and most painful corners of my past. Through the telling of my personal story, I want to tell you how hope became very real for me
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Posted March 12, 2010:
The Sign of the Cross
by Romano Guardini.
When we cross ourselves, let it be with a real sign of the cross. Instead of a small cramped gesture that gives no notion of its meaning, let us make a large, unhurried sign, from forehead to breast, from shoulder to shoulder, consciously feeling how it includes the whole of us, our thoughts, our attitudes, our body and soul, every part of us at once, how it consecrates and sanctifies us.
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Posted March 10, 2010 in Lent and Easter, and in New Millennium:
Praying With Your Body
by Fr. David May.
The old man peered from behind the curtain of the iconostasis. "Sign!" he yelled. "Sign! Why aren’t you signing?!"
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Posted March 09, 2010:
Poem
by Lolita Jardeleza.
Posted March 08, 2010:
A New Way of Seeing
by Roman Guardini.
The more we think about long-familiar things, the clearer does their meaning grow. Things we have done thousands of times, if we will only look into them more deeply, will disclose to us their beauty. If we listen, they will speak.
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Posted March 05, 2010 in Lent and Easter, and in Word Made Flesh:
Why Not Be a Mystic?
by Fr. Pat McNulty.
One cloudy day, I was sitting on the ground outside the poustinia in great turmoil and pain. I was trying to make some very difficult decisions in my life, and I was feeling a desperate need for a sign from God.
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Posted March 03, 2010 in My Dear Family:
Forgiveness
by Catherine Doherty.
We must forgive the society from which we came; we must forgive the ways it has hurt us.
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Posted March 01, 2010:
Forgiving is a Journey
by Irma Zaleski.
Some twenty years ago, I spent two weeks at Madonna House. Although I had already known the community for a few years and thought I knew them quite well, my short stay made me realize how little, in fact, I had known or understood how demanding and difficult their life could be.
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Posted February 26, 2010 in One Man's Scrap:
One Man’s Scrap, Another Man’s Gold (February 2010)
Whoever invented the twelve-month calendar was wise to give February only 28 days. They must have had an inkling it was going to be a cold, dreary month. But dreary or not, we think it’s a good month for getting things done. After all, there are fewer things going on in February.
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Posted February 25, 2010 in Lent and Easter:
We Are Saved Sinners
by Jean Fox.
We say, "I’m wounded" or "I can’t help that because I’m wounded." We must learn to say, "No, it’s not my wound that makes me mean and irritable and devious and hateful. It’s the fact that I’m a sinner."
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Posted February 23, 2010 in The Pope's Corner:
How Can I Not Pay Tribute?
by Pope Benedict XVI.
"The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus," the saintly Curé of Ars would often say.
Let us reflect with heartfelt gratitude on the immense gift which priests represent, not only for the Church, but also for humanity itself.
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Posted February 22, 2010 in Lent and Easter, and in Word Made Flesh:
Got a Penny?
by Fr. Pat McNulty.
The toothless, scruffy old beggar outside the bus station didn’t bat an eye when I declined her sexual pitch. But before I could converse with her along a more favourable line, she said to me, "Got a penny?"
Her question caught me off guard. "A penny?" I asked. "What are you gonna do with a penny?"
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Posted February 19, 2010 in New Millennium:
He’s Admirable, But…
by Fr. David May.
If an article in Restoration starts with the theme of "penance," are you likely to continue reading? Are you still with me? If so, let’s look together at the example of St. John Vianney, patron of priests, for this is the Year for Priests, and he is its patron.
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Posted February 17, 2010 in Lent and Easter:
Lent: School of Love
by Catherine Doherty.
Lent is God’s lovemaking to man. But God’s lovemaking is strange. He knows, for instance, that a child is trained to jump by having first a little brick to jump over, for his feet are very tiny; then two bricks; then three; and finally the Olympic jump—whatever it is.
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Posted February 15, 2010:
What I Learned in Russia
by Fr. Michael Shields.
The author, who has been a missionary in Russia for fifteen years, is the pastor of the first Catholic parish in Magadan, a city which, under Communism, was an administrative center for the gulags (prison camps).
People outside Russia usually ask me how I am doing and what I am doing. I then give a litany of what we are doing, leaving out what we should be doing and our failures.
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