Category: Isolation
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Dear Sister
Dear Sister, Such strange times. Even when we are preempted from our normal activities and from our interactions with others, which have often left us with too little time for one another; Even now in our isolation of weather and COVID; Even now, the bridge that exists between us, built of parents and past history,…
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Meditation before the Blessed Sacrament – Help heal our wounded love
Have you nothing to annoy you? My child, tell Me your annoyances, with every detail. Who has pained you? Who has wounded your self-love? Who has treated you contemptuously? Tell Me all, and then say that you forgive and forget; and I will give you My blessing. I have a close friend, Holy Lord. You…
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Meditation before the Blessed Sacrament – for family
The Church of St. Joan of Arc has a wonderful pamphlet of meditations to ponder as we sit in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Written in Jesus’s own voice, even the questions are comforting, as though He were holding us in the palm of His hand — intent on our concerns, lavish in His love,…
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On Divine Mercy Sunday, isolation from all but You
Bless this time together today, Father, on this Divine Mercy Sunday. Have mercy on all of us, hopeless sinners all, in this time of isolation. In this time of isolation let us never isolate ourselves from You, our only hope, our only true friend through whom all others, all else is ordered. Never allow our…
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Feeling small in isolation
I’m feeling very little in this time, Lord, as though You in a holy chastisement have sent all us squabbling children Into a sort of global time-out, Restrictions, like when I was a child and someone else was in control of my life. I gave in back then to my parents authority. I wasn’t one…
Walking With My Brother 