By Sr. Mary Garascia
It was nearly Christmas a few years ago, and I was visiting people at a community meal, part of our parish’s family faith formation program. At one table there was a young Dad with his eight-year-old daughter.
Carrying our darknesses as we walk to the light
By Sr. Mary Garascia, C.P.P.S.
The Noah’s Ark story, says Franciscan Richard Rohr, has an element most people never notice: after the animals enter the ark, God closes them in together (Gen 7:16)-- God puts all the natural animosities, all the opposites together, and holds them in one place.
The Holy Trinity – from abstract concept to lived reality
By Sr. Mary Garascia, C.P.P.S.
June 11, Trinity Sunday, is a solemn Feast Day in our liturgical calendar. What this doctrine of Trinity means is very difficult to say! Theologian Elizabeth Johnson says that the
Catholic thought on labor: looking back … and forward
By Sr. Mary Garascia
LABOR DAY was last weekend. I was reading an old (July) TIME magazine as the Labor Day holiday approached. In it was an article about labor.
It was pretty dire.
Memorials help us promote a more God-filled culture
By Sr. Mary Garascia
May is the month when we remember our mothers on Mother’s Day (May 14) and when we remember our war dead on Memorial Day (May 31st). For us Catholics, remembering and memorials are part of our faith. Our Eucharist is a memorial. So let’s explore this word memorial a bit more!