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Catholic Faith Corner

Living in the Light
of Jesus Christ

A Rest Test for the Stressed

Some (or most) days do you feel trapped in a hamster wheel? Your to-do list is a mile long. Taking a break, a rest, or, horrors, a nap seem out of the question. You are depressed, anxious, and feel an ulcer coming on. You don’t remember when you last laughed, had a good time with […]

Take It Easy!

As a young Sister I lived for a year at St. Benedict Convent adjacent to the Benedictine Abbey. One winter night another young Sister and I tramped to the yard outside the many windows of the Abbey. There in the snow we wrote the Benedictine motto, “Ora et Labora” (Prayer and Work), for the monks […]

Spotlight on the Family 5: Sunday, the Pause That Refreshes

(PS for last week’s post: This Sunday’s Plain Dealer ran a story about a man who raised funds for a hospital in his native Congo. His storage trailer with $100,000 worth of supplies burned, destroying everything but rosaries. Wonder if the publisher knew October is the month of the Holy Rosary.) Two of my ninth […]

Vacation Time

Jesus once invited his apostles to come apart and rest awhile. A wit said, “Yes, come apart so you don’t come apart.” That is what I will be doing for the next ten days as I take a vacation. I will not be providing a weekly blog. You might dip into the archives here and […]

Let’s Reclaim Sunday

Do you know why God rested on the seventh day? Because he had created man and woman who would help with his work! At least that’s according to one wit. Ordinarily we interpret God’s “rest” as a model for us. Jewish people rest on Saturday. Christians shifted this rest to Sunday because it was the […]