by Fr. David May
At first things weren’t so bad. When I was growing up, we were told that to find happiness in this world and eternal bliss in...
Pope Francis
Joseph accepted Mary unconditionally. He trusted in the angel’s words. . . Even though he did not understand the bigger picture, he made a decision...
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...
by Fr. Denis Lemieux
On December 8, Pope Francis took most of us by surprise by declaring 2021 to be the Year of St. Joseph. His apostolic letter Patris...
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...
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...
by Pope Francis
Lent is an invitation to conversion. It comes to awaken us, to rouse us from torpor and from the risk of moving forward by inertia....
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...
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,...
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...