...our Gospel today. Both people were grieving loss and heartache in their lives and desperate for help. Jairus was well known; the woman was unknown. We don’t even know her...
Show Up – Step Up – Speak Up
Feast of St. Mark
all things in common at Jerusalem, so he recorded that he saw was done at Alexandria, under the learned Mark. He died in the eighth year of Nero and was...
Blessed Margaret of Castello
acknowledge her as their own. By the time Margaret was six, even this concession was too much for her self-absorbed parents. Off Margaret went to a hermit’s cell, walled into...
Lent and the Pretzel
The pretzel has a deep spiritual meaning for Lent. In fact, it was the ancient Christian Lenten bread as far back as the fourth century. In the old Roman Empire,...