Good Friday at the foot of the Cross
Standing at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday is anything but easy. Even so, it’s where we are invited to be today.
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Tag: sorrow
Christmas Grief and Remembering Those Who Mourn
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the chaos and clutter, the preparations and perpetual...
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Spending Lent with Mary
A few years ago, my Lent began in an unfamiliar house, face-to-face with a woman who was living my...
Read MoreMary and the Passion
A Mary Moment Monday post Recently, one of my oldest friends asked me for some insight on the Virgin Mary and the Passion. She’s not Catholic, but she reads my blog anyway (like I said, one of my oldest friends). She had...
Read MoreA Mother’s Tears
A Mary Moment Monday post I’ve been thinking about this post since Friday afternoon, when my mother-in-law got a call from my sister-in-law about what had happened in Connecticut. Then, a friend on Facebook started a...
Read MoreRemembering
A Mary Moment Monday post Nine days ago, it was Christmas. Nine days ago, it was a whole different year than now, 2010. Nine days ago, I began a special novena to Our Lady of Sorrows. Today is an anniversary our family will hold...
Read MoreRemembering with Prayer
Tomorrow marks one year. I don’t want to dwell on it here, because I feel like it’s not my pain and somehow, by writing about it too much, I somehow act like it is. Don’t get me wrong: I feel pain. We all do....
Read MoreAppreciating Fall
This year, I’m appreciating fall in a new way. I credit my sister-in-law, the one who has moved back to Ohio after seven years away from our version of fall, with this heightened awareness of the beauty around me. I...
Read MoreMary in Tears
Another in the Mary Moment Monday series This week, on September 15, we celebrate one of my favorite feasts of Mary, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. She’s a special Mary to me, one who’s close to my heart, who...
Read MoreThe Assumption This Year
On Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. It’s a Holy Day of Obligation here in the United States, and one that I’ve always struggled to understand and internalize. I’ve written about it at Faith and...
Read MoreA Birthday Not Celebrated
A Mary Moment Monday post (Yes, I realize this is the second Mary Moment Monday post today. But this is for Susie. I wrote it yesterday and asked her permission to publish it. I hadn’t heard from her this morning, so I...
Read MoreLooking at Mary from the Cross
What did they say to her, as they watched her watch her Son hanging there, dying? Did they rub her back and watch the tears, unable to hold back their own? Were they able to whisper prayers with her, or was it silent in the...
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