by Claire Dwyer | Mar 3, 2019 | Books, Eucharist
Although I’ve always been an avid reader, with stacks of books on my desk, beside my bed, and on overflowing shelves around the house, I didn’t read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy until I was an adult. (Now my sixth...
by Claire Dwyer | Mar 1, 2019 | Catholic Church, Eucharist
The last note of the organ lingered like the cloud incense in the air. I knelt for a quick thanksgiving as parishioners gathered their things and began to leave the pews at the end of the Sunday Mass. Then there was a gentle tap on my shoulder. “Excuse me,” the...
by Claire Dwyer | Feb 20, 2019 | Mary, Saints
Just two years ago, two of the young visionaries of Fatima were added to the living links in the Church’s rosary of Saints. In front of half a million pilgrims, and with many of us watching from home, Pope Francis canonized Jacinta and Francisco Marto on May 13,...
by Claire Dwyer | Feb 17, 2019 | pro-life, Saints
I love the saints. I love that the Church gives them to us, raises them up so that we can see what holiness looks like lived out in this life. I love that they point to something better, brighter. What we see in shadows, little hints in the sacrament of the every day,...
by Claire Dwyer | Dec 15, 2018 | Saints
Recently I was listening to an Avila Institute class lecture. Professor Hollcraft’s comments on fortitude in the everyday situations and decisions of our lives solidified something which struck me deeply a few years ago. My friend was giving a talk about the...
