by Claire Dwyer | Mar 22, 2020 | Everyday Holiness, Present Moment, Saints, spirituality, The Sacred Everyday
We have never needed the message in this video (below) more. Our nation-and the world-are slowly grinding to a standstill in the wake of a virus we were barely aware of a few weeks ago. How quickly things change…it wasn’t part of my ‘plan’...
by Claire Dwyer | Jan 24, 2020 | Mercy, parenthood, prayer, Saints
The canonized women who are mothers add to our altars a special kind of incense – a two-fold fragrance of motherhood, both natural and spiritual. The very definition of their sainthood reveals that the life of the soul was sacrosanct to them and that while they...
by Claire Dwyer | Oct 31, 2019 | Catholic Church, Mercy, Saints
It was the year 1450, and it the first Holy Year declared in the Church. Lay and religious pilgrims joyfully converged upon Rome – including a band of Augustinian nuns from Cascia, in the region of Umbria in central Italy known for its saints, as the birthplace of...
by Claire Dwyer | Oct 13, 2019 | Catholic Church, Saints
I love the saints – hang out here at all, and you’ll inevitably see evidence. This is why I’m always a little giddy when the Church adds a few more watts to her spiritual sky and makes our earthly pilgrimage just a bit brighter. They light the way,...
by Claire Dwyer | Oct 13, 2019 | Discernment, Everyday Holiness, parenthood, Saints, The Sacred Everyday
We pulled into the school parking lot and swung open our van doors to let in the kids pile in, fresh from school and ready for snacks, sports practices, and all the activities of each evening. My friend smiled as they scurried around us, backpacks and water bottles...
by Claire Dwyer | Jun 26, 2019 | Everyday Holiness, Saints, spirituality
The young Spanish priest had felt in his prayer an unidentified urging for several years, a vague call, a sense of something more. On October 2, 1928, while pondering some notes in his journal, Fr. Josemaría Escrivá suddenly saw it: the ‘call within a call’ such as...
