Blog

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

America’s young girls continue to be under pressure to relax their moral standards as yet another popular teen magazine, Seventeen, published a glowing review of a music video featuring same-sex attraction and adultery.

Read the rest

July 17

“It shall happen as God shall choose, for assuredly we depend not on our own power but on the power of God.”

                                                                                   - St. Perpetua

Read the rest

July 16

Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Kindly Mother of our Redeemer; great portal of heaven ever open, the sea's far-shining star:

O succour thy people who though fallen strive to rise again. O thou who brought forth to all nature's wonder, nature's Lord, thine own Creator: Mother yet a Virgin ever more, who at Gabriel's speaking didst receive the Ave: Towards us sinners show thy pity.

Today's Reflection:

What special petition do I wish to entrust to Mary’s Immaculate Heart on this her feast day?

Don't miss the Women of Grace® National Conference in Albuquerque, NM, September 8-10, 2017!  Click here for details! 

 

                                                                     

Read the rest

July 15

“Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.”

                                                                                - St. Bonaventure

Read the rest

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

ABC News reporters Pete Madden and Erin Galloway led a mainstream media smear campaign against the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), one of the country’s most respected religious liberty law firms, causing a national outcry after referring to them as a “hate group.”

Read the rest

During a second day of hearings, Justice Nicholas Francis, the judge presiding over the case of Charlie Gard, an 11 month old baby who is dying of mitochondrial depletion syndrome, has agreed to allow a New York doctor to examine the child to assess the efficacy of further treatment before rendering his decision on July 25.

Read the rest

July 14

“I want to be like you – Christian. You help me to believe I am special when you say God loves all people, no matter how different they are.”

                                                            -St. Kateri Tekakwitha

                                                            “Lilly of the Mohawks”

 Today's Reflection:

To what extent do I help people believe they are special, no matter how different they are? Who can I help in this way today?

Don't miss the Women of Grace® National Conference in Albuquerque, NM, September 8-10, 2017!  Click here for details! 

 

                                                                     

Read the rest

Sky News is publishing a minute-by-minute blog on today's court proceedings involving 11 month-old Charlie Gard, including the dust-up between Charlie’s parents and the judge as well as testimony from a US expert who describes the kind of treatment he is proposing to improve the boy’s life.

Read the rest

A new study of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth that many believe was wrapped around Jesus’ body after the crucifixion, has found particles indicating the man in the shroud was tortured and died violently.

Read the rest

Pope Francis issued a Motu proprio earlier this week in which he declared a new category of Christian life which will now be suitable for consideration of beatification – the “offering of life, or oblatio vitae, which occurs when a person dies prematurely because they have offered their life for love of God and neighbor.

Read the rest