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There’s a Mary that’s gotten me through the recent hard times, having found myself so exhausted and desperate for the simplest of images, when prayer becomes too hard. Mary Untier of Knots is a painting from 1700 Germany by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner. Essentially, Pope Francis came across her in the 1980s and shared her,
Reflect In the “Multiplication of the Loaves” Jesus fed the crowd, and when there was bread left over he instructed, “Gather the fragments.” Think of aspects of your past that can still be healed. Pray God, if I think about those three wordsthey call forth all the pieces of dreams I lost, scattered behind me.If I turn
Reflect During the weeks of Lent, we embrace the sorrowful mystery of Christ’s death, knowing we are always journeying toward rebirth. Pray Dear Jesus, Throughout these desolate forty days, our faith in yougrows buds of hopethat we know will soon unfoldbecause you’ve never failedto return to us, never failed to surround the altarwith white lily after lily, an abundance
I rely on certain passages from the psalms as my daily guide; most essentially, the words from Psalm 119:105: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.” At the end of 2021, as I was leaving to drive the two hours home on the Mass Pike from my daughter’s place
I walked last night down past the houses until there was only a wildlife refuge, dunes on the left, empty beach on the right. It was not really “empty.” So what is “empty”—that hunger within? We think there is nothing there. But what if we’re full of sea grasses and long-legged birds trotting in the
Reflect Throughout the day, we encounter a variety of people who may be strangers. May this prayer support you in knowing that what you give to all brightens the world. Pray God, gently remind methat how I treat every single person today matters. Help me give true kindness to all who cross my path,and to see all interactionsas a
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