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The first significant and explicit encounter happened in the spring of 1916. Again, the three children were in the fields taking care of the sheep, and as normally devout Catholic children in a small town in Portugal, they were dutifully saying their Rosary. They had decided though to develop a “shorthand” Rosary wh...
The rosary is truly a transformative prayer. When it is prayed with love, attention, and in a contemplative manner, it opens the mind and heart more fully to the mystery and beauty of God. Gradually it quiets the incessant inner chatter, enabling us to listen more attentively to God’s presence in the depths of the soul. In this way, the rosary leads us into interior silence a...
The rosary is, in a very real way, a form of therapy. While it is not meant to replace psychology, it offers an integration and harmonization of the whole person that therapy alone cannot provide. This is not a criticism of psychology, but simply a reminder of its inherent limitations.
When a person takes a rosary in hand to pray, they are led almost immediately int...
St. Francis reminds us that the Word of the Father became flesh and dwelt in the poverty of our limitations and ordinariness. It is precisely in His hiddenness in ordinary moments that the Son of the humble Handmaid of Nazareth communicates divine meaning into human frailty.
For St. Francis, this meant rebuilding churches, not merely the physical buildings, but rev...
Words have always been fascinating to me. From a young age, and thanks to the diligence of my wonderful parents, an abundance of reading material was always readily available for our curious consumption. If you are a member of the pre-Internet generations, your bookshelves might once have displayed a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, as ours did in the 1970s and ’80s. These...