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Spiritual Growth: My Quiet Time

My quiet time in the morning is totally sacred to me.  I come out into my screened room with my books of reflective thoughts and I sit with God.  This is the most important part of my day.  It helps to set the tone of my heart, soul, and mind and prepares me for the day ahead.

When I am in my screened room I am surrounded by nature.  There is my garden, which I tend to in the best fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants fashion, with its green grass and beds full of bright nodding flowers.  The old WalMart gazebo wrought-iron frame . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: My Quiet Time

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Vignettes: Signor Ludovic’s Story

I practiced as a massage therapist in Italy for about seven years.  I came to Signor Ludovic via a local parish priest, Don Rafaele.  My husband and I would occasionally go to the little Italian church for Mass and Don Rafaele told the story of Signor Ludovic to illustrate the gospel story in his sermon one Sunday.

Signor Ludovic was a Local farmer, a man of the earth with no formal education.  He had worked the land all his life and raised eight children.  Suddenly, at age seventy, he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and confined . . . → Read More: Vignettes: Signor Ludovic’s Story

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Vignette: Remembering Cindy

 

I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5.45am today.  I am not an easy morning person.  Once I am up and get going then I am okay.  It’s  the clawing my way up out of sleep and letting go of the sheer wonderfulness of being snuggled up that I find hard.  But I really want to create a routine for Thursday mornings; going to 8am Mass followed by a special Rosary with a small group.

When I walked into the church the first thing I saw was a closed coffin in the center aisle in front . . . → Read More: Vignette: Remembering Cindy