So Simple, So Momentous by Susanne Stubbs
Times of death in a family can be times of grace. We can be evangelized through them. Recently in Madonna House, two brothers and a sister...
08
Apr
Theresa Really Loved by Fr. David May, Julie Coxe, friends from Winslow, Arizona, and the editor
What do you do? It’s a question we, the staff of Madonna House, are often asked. One answer: well, we try to love—one another and...
Living in Nazareth by Theresa Marsey
It’s been a year since I came to our house in Winslow, where my assignment was to spend time in silence and prayer in the...
05
Apr
The Asceticism of Joy by Fr. Bob Pelton
This article has been in our newspaper before, but it so speaks to our current crises that I couldn’t resist putting it in again. Editor *** If you...
22
Mar
She Lived a Rich, Full Life Kathy McVady
Theresa Marsey was the eleventh and youngest child of a lively Austrian-American family. One of her early memories was of her father calling out, “Anyone...
15
Mar
Combermere Diary by Amy Barnes
At the time of this writing, the end of January, Ontario is in strict lockdown (a situation that we hope is over by the time...
11
Mar
A Gospel Approach From MH Washington by Echo Lewis, director of MH Washington
January 16, 2021 Did you know that Madonna House has a prayer house just a few blocks from the Capitol building? Founded in 1981, one of...
Face God by Fr. Robert Wild
A very brief word that came to me in the poustinia one day was, “Face God.” It is not easy to look steadily into the face...
08
Mar
Who Are We in COVID-Time? by Cheryl Ann Smith
If I had written a newsletter early last March, it would have been bursting with news of our visitors and retreatants from far and wide,...
He befriended me by Patrick McConville
He befriended me. I stumbled and he steadied me. When I fell, he lifted me again. He breathed his breath in me. When my breath was gone, He breathed in...