Heartbeats February 2021

This watercolor painting by Sr. Anne Therese Dillen, O.S.U., featuring two persons and not the apostles, is a symbolic representation of us all as we “look up” in expectation, sometimes forgetting that we need look only around us and within us to find the risen Jesus. “MEN of GALILEE, WHY DO YOU STAND LOOKING UP?”…

Bridget Puzon, O.S.U. All Saints Day reminds us that in every generation there are exemplary men and women who remind us of God’s goodness through the way they live their lives, suffer adversity, and are magnanimous in success and prosperity. The saints of our times are people whose faces and lives can be graphically shown…

Alice D. Grant As I begin this reflection in the wake of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, I am discouraged by the negative messages surrounding the announcement—media references to the continuing effects of the clerical sexual abuse scandals and the unconscionable response of the Church leaders, Popes as well as local Bishops; the announcement…