Capuchin Saints chosen as Symbols of the Year of Mercy: Relics of St.’s Padre Pio and Leopold Mandic brought to Rome.

Capuchin Saints chosen as Symbols of the Year of Mercy: Relics of St.’s Padre Pio and Leopold Mandic brought to Rome.

As part of the celebration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has called the relics of the bodies of two of our saintly brothers to Rome, St.’s Leopold Mandic and Padre Pio. The relics have been brought for the veneration of the faithful and as a reminder of the ministry of mercy we…

Dawn Sitting: A decaf Moment

Dawn Sitting: A decaf Moment

  Dawn Sitting. To sit in stillness as dawn wakes, is a sacred joy. Keeping watch as first light illumines the heart’s altar, calling it from its flickering candled dream-darkness into the now, of awake awareness; is to dwell within a daily resurrection. Sitting still I allow Divine attention to breathe blessing through me upon…

Autumnal Wood Wisdom: A decaf moment

Autumnal Wood Wisdom: A decaf moment

  Autumnal Wood Wisdom Enter slowly, and with reverence, the golden autumnal woods, and then, stopping beneath their vaulted sylvan sanctuary, allow their burnished beauty of bronzed leaf, polished nut, and, shining fruit to reflect deep eternal richness of Divine generosity, always gifting grace in each moment, of Heaven’s harvesting, to breathe its blessing through…