Today we celebrate the feast of St. Rita, the patron saint of abused wives. We need her help. Whether labelled 
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Every age has its own moments of meaning. Imagine a rural village, Cova da Iria,  in Fatima,  Portugal, in 1917. 
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If there was a saint for our current moment in history, St. Catherine of Siena should be the one. Consider 
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Sr. Mary Hennessey was the coordinator of Field Placements at Harvard Divinity School when my husband and I were studying 
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“If I only knew then what I know now.” This is what I said to Emund Matatawabin, former Cree Chief 
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Good Friday represents the groaning of the planet in agony. It is suffering writ large, manifested most vividly in the 
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There’s such a sense of anticipation on Holy Thursday, I find. It is the start of the Triduum, the three 
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This beautiful painting of the Annunciation of Our Lord is provocative. It presents a very realistic depiction of Mary, the 
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Today we remember St. Joseph, in the year that Pope Francis has named “The Year of St. Joseph.” Today, also, 
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St. Patrick is one of those characters embraced by a secular world that has little interest and less knowledge about 
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