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St. Catherine Labouré & The Miraculous Medal

Posted on May 23, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

This month of May, when we begin to see more of the sun and blossoms budding; the Church turns Her collective heart to Mary. Our Blessed Mother, who in her fiat, her courageous yes, gave birth to Life Himself. The dedication of the month of May ...
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Learning Everything That Is, Is Holy with Thomas Merton

Posted on April 13, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God (New Seeds, 21). In chapter four in New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas ...
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The Hopeful Message of Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 15, 2021March 1, 2022 by Tony Crescio

The Lenten Season begins tomorrow with the celebration of Ash Wednesday. And, while there is, to be sure, a certain solemnness to this celebration, it is worth considering at the outset of this season of repentance, the hopeful message it holds ...
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Learning to be Alone

Posted on February 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

The truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul. (New Seeds, 80) In Ch. 11 of New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton offers a ri...
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When Home Décor becomes Doxology

Posted on January 28, 2021October 31, 2021 by Vanessa Crescio

As we welcome you into our humble Catholic home, you will notice in the entryway a modest Hobby Lobby quote block that reads: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). In this our home is far from unique. This line from Jo...
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Sowing in Tears

Posted on January 11, 2021November 28, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

Imprisoned for the first time in her young life (of the at least dozen times from 1917-1955), Dorothy Day lay in her cell shivering from the cold and starving. She had joined a group of suffragists in D.C. to protest the brutal treatment of impr...
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The Christmas Tree: A Sign of Life in Christ

Posted on December 23, 2020December 10, 2022 by Tony Crescio

There are few things like a sparkling Christmas Tree that can bring a smile to our faces so easily. Every year around this time, almost instinctually, many of us acquire an evergreen tree of some variety to put in our homes. It has been common o...
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Thomas Merton on Integrity in the Search for the Self

Posted on December 20, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We hear from the Gospel for Gaudete Sunday Year B; the account of John the Baptist declaring his mission of salvation. In the Gospel, John the Baptist is interrogated by the chief priests and Levites. They ask John the Baptist who he i...
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The Immaculate Conception: A Celebration of Salvation

Posted on December 7, 2020December 5, 2021 by Tony Crescio

While the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th marks an event of the utmost importance in salvation history, it is not without its conceptual and emotional difficulties. Conceptually the difficulties arise du...
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Thomas Merton on the Unity of All Things in the Love of Christ

Posted on December 1, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

A man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in purity of a selfless love (New Seeds of Contempl...
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