Tag: suffering
Refugees, displaced take center stage at Middle East consistory
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2014 / 12:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At Monday’s consistory on the Middle East, patriarchs gathered to discuss the threats facing local Christians, and focused on the key task of returning displaced families to their homes. “We are suffering … we feel that we are isolated and that we are forgotten,” Louis… Read More ›
Bold Red
Tiny choices bear far flung fruit, the seeds germinate each in their own time, waiting for abundance of whatever sort to come forth. Some fruit sweet to the taste, others bitter, then there are those which are poison, spreading pain, death and fear. Often planted deep, hidden, for generations, when its growth suddenly hits the… Read More ›
Catholics in Ukrainian border diocese face suffering, uncertainty
Odessa, Ukraine, Sep 9, 2014 / 04:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Catholics in the southeast Ukrainian Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol, ongoing Russian control of Crimea has created serious challenges and “incredible devastation,” a local bishop said. “We pray for a solution which would create a new civilization that does not turn to force to resolve problems,… Read More ›
Papal envoy: Francis donated $1 million to Iraqi refugees
Vatican City, Aug 22, 2014 / 01:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has given $1 million as a personal contribution to help Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq who have been forced from their homes, according to his personal envoy to the country.Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples,… Read More ›
Crowded lobby
Emergency rooms are places of waiting, of hurrying to get there and then just sitting, often in a crowded lobby, witnessing the human drama of our fragility played out in living color; pain, worry, suffering lived out in full view, though most so preoccupied with their own drama it can mostly be fazed out. I… Read More ›
Don’t Give in to Discouragement
Psychologists tell us that one of the chief evils of our age, an evil apparently less evident in earlier ages, is that of easy defeat. Be this as it may, most people who are honest with themselves would probably have to admit to indulging in despondency. They are fortunate if they have nothing worse to… Read More ›
Swallowed
Its all me, that is the hard learned lesson slowly coming to light, my reactions and sufferings are my own, the world I live in flows from my deep subjectivity making my desire to be objective impossible though it is not a fool’s errand to try. I am often swallowed, devoured like Jonah, the belly… Read More ›
The great forgiving
There are some who tell me that they love Holy Week, who am I to disagree with them if that is so, in my opinion they are lucky to have that feeling, for me however, all I can say if truth be told, is I hate Holy Week, my soul feels like lead, heavy, perhaps… Read More ›
Our elders
They are everywhere, these very old people, each a call to meditate on our own mortality, something most would like to put off until tomorrow, yet we only have today, tomorrow does not yet exist, will never in fact, well as an idea, for there is only this day where our potential can be lived out…. Read More ›
The last phase of life
As I was taking care of Luke early this morning I could tell that this was going to be a morning of confusion. He was in a good mood, but as happens often with the very old, he will soon be 102, his body is awake but his mind is still in some dream. Luckily… Read More ›