by Claire Dwyer | Mar 30, 2019 | Eucharist, prayer, Saints, spirituality
Some time ago at Sunday Mass, I looked up to see a woman texting on her phone in line for Holy Communion. My heart stopped. It was the most blatant, shocking show of distraction I’d ever seen. To be so close to Jesus, to be approaching this intimate moment of...
by Claire Dwyer | Mar 16, 2019 | Everyday Holiness, parenthood, Saints
Know Thyself, and thy faults, and thus live. – St. Augustine My mother had me pegged at a very young age. I remember walking into her bedroom as she put down the book Transformed Temperaments by Tim LaHaye and smiled at twelve-year-old me. ...
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 | 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,...
by Claire Dwyer | Dec 15, 2018 | Saints
Recently I was listening to an Avila Institute class lecture. Professor Hollcraft’s comments on fortitude in the everyday situations and decisions of our lives solidified something which struck me deeply a few years ago. My friend was giving a talk about the...
