by Claire Dwyer | Mar 8, 2019 | Saints
If you are busy juggling family, friends, work, and prayer, trying to balance works of mercy with your daily duty, prayer time with household chores, and marriage with ministry, then let today’s saint be an inspiration. There are few who can’t relate to her in some...
by Claire Dwyer | Mar 3, 2019 | Books, Eucharist
Although I’ve always been an avid reader, with stacks of books on my desk, beside my bed, and on overflowing shelves around the house, I didn’t read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy until I was an adult. (Now my sixth...
by Claire Dwyer | Mar 1, 2019 | Catholic Church, Eucharist
The last note of the organ lingered like the cloud incense in the air. I knelt for a quick thanksgiving as parishioners gathered their things and began to leave the pews at the end of the Sunday Mass. Then there was a gentle tap on my shoulder. “Excuse me,” the...
by Claire Dwyer | Feb 20, 2019 | Mary, Saints
Just two years ago, two of the young visionaries of Fatima were added to the living links in the Church’s rosary of Saints. In front of half a million pilgrims, and with many of us watching from home, Pope Francis canonized Jacinta and Francisco Marto on May 13,...
by Claire Dwyer | Feb 17, 2019 | pro-life, Saints
I love the saints. I love that the Church gives them to us, raises them up so that we can see what holiness looks like lived out in this life. I love that they point to something better, brighter. What we see in shadows, little hints in the sacrament of the every day,...
