I spent Ash Wednesday with my sister in her darkened hospital room. I held her hand. She graciously laughed at my weak jokes. Sometimes we chatted with the nurse. Sometimes we sat in the stillness […]
Category: Healing
Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ
Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ[i] When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for […]
Our Lady of Lourdes: A Healing Pilgrimage
On February 11, 1858, in the small town of Lourdes in southern France, a sickly and impoverished fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous experienced the first of eighteen Marian apparitions at a grotto which would eventually […]
Blind in the Light of the Sun
“GOD IS NOTHING BUT MERCY AND LOVE.” – St. Therese of Lisieux The video at the bottom of the page recently made the rounds on social media. I found it so moving that I re-watched […]
Quarantining Our Fears
By Tony Alonso “Do not be afraid.” “Do not fear, little flock.” “Have no anxiety at all.” These, and dozens like them, are the phrases softly spoken by a radical rabbi from Nazareth in the […]
