This past week we celebrated Corpus Christi – The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. How many of us took time to celebrate, to recognize, and to pray in thanksgiving for the gift of the Eucharist? How many of us savored this solemnity, accompanying our loved ones living with dementia in […]
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We sit in this space between celebrating the 3rd World Day for Grandparents and Elders and the start of World Youth Day in Portugal. These two events in the Church, show us the beauty of life and the importance of honoring the life of our youth AND our elders. Over the past decade or so,
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Looking around the Adoration Chapel, wounds of 2020 linger on the kneelers like ghosts. The scars of a time when we were denied access to the Sacraments, a time when all that we are as Catholics were attacked in the name of safety. We found ourselves without a community, without the Eucharist, and without the
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The day I stopped my ministry as an altar server I was lost. I felt my role and place in the church was over and nothing could replace it. Dramatic, maybe, but these were and are the feelings that still run through my mind from time to time. I
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“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.” – St. Therese of Lisieux It is easy to see the beauty of a certain stage of life and only the darkness of another. Yet, as we are
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(Originally posted on dementialettersproject.com in September 2019) As care partners, individuals with dementia, and people of faith, we pray. We pray for miracles of Biblical proportion, and the size of a mustard seed. We pray Novenas, clutch our rosary beads as we say the Chaplet or Mysteries of the Rosary. We pray, and we hope,
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