by Claire Dwyer | Jan 24, 2020 | Mercy, parenthood, prayer, Saints
The canonized women who are mothers add to our altars a special kind of incense – a two-fold fragrance of motherhood, both natural and spiritual. The very definition of their sainthood reveals that the life of the soul was sacrosanct to them and that while they...
by Claire Dwyer | Oct 13, 2019 | Catholic Church, Saints
I love the saints – hang out here at all, and you’ll inevitably see evidence. This is why I’m always a little giddy when the Church adds a few more watts to her spiritual sky and makes our earthly pilgrimage just a bit brighter. They light the way,...
by Claire Dwyer | Jun 26, 2019 | Everyday Holiness, Saints, spirituality
The young Spanish priest had felt in his prayer an unidentified urging for several years, a vague call, a sense of something more. On October 2, 1928, while pondering some notes in his journal, Fr. Josemaría Escrivá suddenly saw it: the ‘call within a call’ such as...
