Murmuring of voices joined before lighted candles, common whispers on fervent lips, a faith filled fingering of humble beads; in all these ways the rosary expresses the deepest cries of broken hearts and the resounding hope for a new day.  Demeaned as a symbol of radical nationalism, and even a call to violence, the Rosary […]

We live in a world that has seemed to have forgotten God and without the sacred to give it orientation, it has fallen into chaos.  Not only societies and communities, but families and individuals are fragmented and dismayed.  Nature abhors a vacuum, and the vacuum of chaos has sucked in all kinds of magical thinking, […]

She remembered,  Shrouded in Faith’s Night, shocked silence: That nail splintered wood,  Those fastened hands  Dripping in pulses of Love Divine And human heart, stretch in final  Blessing, the Word’s  Wordless cry echoed  Obedient between fingers holding  Her heart even as He gives all away,  The Word’s wordless agony pierced even deeper:  Oh anti-thesis of […]

“You have stood by me in my trials and I am giving you a Kingdom.”  This solemn declaration was made by the Lord even as He faced betrayal, denial, and abandonment – suffering these unto death. To enter into His Kingdom, we must follow Him down this same pathway.  This means that we will face […]

Those who would prayerfully ponder the silence of Mary discover that the sacred has a certain structure – it is structured out of and into silence in a manner that evokes awe and reverence. That is, Mary helps us see that the sacred unfolds as hierarchy. It has the form of a heavenly temple: a […]