just another day of Catholic pondering by Sarah Reinhard
A Mary Moment Monday post Recently, one of my oldest friends asked me for some insight on the Virgin Mary and the Passion. She’s not Catholic, but she reads my blog anyway (like I said, one of my oldest friends). She had an “assignment” at her church, and she was preparing a talk considering Mary’s [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post I’ve been thinking about this post since Friday afternoon, when my mother-in-law got a call from my sister-in-law about what had happened in Connecticut. Then, a friend on Facebook started a prayer movement. But…what can I say? What can I add? All I have is a title. And a mental [...]
By Maria Johnson Dear Sarah, You asked me to share my experience with miscarriage, and I have to admit that I balked for a moment. It’s because I feared revealing the raw honesty of my answer. Because I am a woman, I revisit the horror of the experience every month, sometimes as a phantom memory, [...]
I don’t know, really, how I became friends with Walt Staples. We were both members of the Catholic Writers Guild, and I suppose that’s where it started. At one of the online conferences, we became crit partners. What that means, with someone like Walt, is that I got a first glimpse at his hilarious and [...]
Dear Allen, Today is your day. And we remember. As we look at the beauty of the day, as we struggle through commonplace challenges, as we get on with our lives forever changed, we remember. As we pray for your soul and those who grieve most deeply, we remember. As we heal and yet remain [...]
I had never really considered grieving for children before I became the bystander. In the wake of a sudden and unexpected family death, two of my nieces became case studies in children grieving. I have felt, in the last year-and-a-half, overwhelmingly helpless. I don’t know what to say; I don’t know what to do; I [...]
March 16 has long been a day I remember with a mixture of fondness and grief. I’m grateful for this day, though it marks sorrow. It was on this day that I witnessed the importance of life and the courage of people I would one day call family. There, at the front of the chapel, [...]
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