Saint Catherine of Siena
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA Originally published by Blessed Is She Unaware of what I was going through, a friend sent me a picture of a kintsugi bowl with the message, “When I see you, I see gold.” Kintsugi is the Japanese art of bowl-mending. Artisans reassemble broken ceramic bowls and costly gold is set into the […]
Reclaiming Sabbath Rest
RECLAIMING SABBATH REST Originally published by Blessed Is She “rest” This word reverberated in my stomach and tied it in knots. I had come to the end of another week, exhausted, once again. Ministry work, household chores and school schedules toppled over juggling health challenges. Somewhere along the way, lines between ministry and family time […]
Saint Teresa of Calcutta: A Saint in the Darkness
SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA: A SAINT IN THE DARKNESS Originally published by Blessed Is She In Something Beautiful for God, the British Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote about an exhilarating experience while filming a documentary on Mother Teresa in 1967. The film crew had arrived at the “Home for the Dying” but were disappointed to encounter a […]
Saint Maximilian Kolbe: A Prophet of Hope
SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE: A PROPHET OF HOPE Originally published by Blessed Is She Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, in one of his essays, relays his experience in Auschwitz. A Jew was being executed while the rest of the camp watched aghast. As he hung on the gallows, struggling in the throes of […]
