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Pope Francis: “Care for life. It’s worth it.”

From a 2005 homily by Cardinal Jorge Bergolio, later to become our Pope Francis: All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth…to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care for life is to (give oneself) in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart forContinue reading “Pope Francis: “Care for life. It’s worth it.””

“An ocean of mercy waiting for us”

The Year of Mercy is drawing to a close, leaving us the commission to keep it going in our respective ways. I just encountered the #MercyStories series on the YouTube channel for the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council. I was drawn to “Poster Child of Divine Mercy: The Testimony of Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC” becauseContinue reading ““An ocean of mercy waiting for us””

First feast day for St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Mark everything with the seal of love! #StElizabethoftheTrinity #laudemgloriae #carmelitequotes pic.twitter.com/9fjlvksLZH — Discalced Carmelite (@OCDFriars) November 8, 2016 Perfect reminder on Twitter, compliments of the Carmelites, that there’s more to November 8 than the American election. It’s the Feast of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, a 20th-century woman newly canonized. I look forward to readingContinue reading “First feast day for St. Elizabeth of the Trinity”