“Our rink operates only on the darkest, coldest days, when we most need community. We gather not in spite of the chill but because of it. The ice connects us.”
Christina Capecchi: What I learned on the pond — reckoning with winter
Christina Capecchi: The story of our lives
I believe our stories are sacred. They are worth telling and re-telling.
Rudolph to the rescue: the triumph of an under-deer
For years Montgomery Ward had bought coloring books and distributed them at stores as a Christmas giveaway. This time around executives decided to save money by creating their own booklet – and asked Robert May to write it.
Being resourceful: I can read! I can pray!
To be resourceful is to glorify the Creator, using our God-given gifts to full effect, like the servants who double their talents in Jesus’ parable.
Christina Capecchi: Living in largo: in praise of a slower pace
Sometimes I am astonished by the pace of life: how quickly we can make online purchases, how readily we can outsource, how fully we can avoid human contact.
Christina Capecchi: All the news that’s fit to print
Easter once felt like news. The shock of the empty tomb. The sought-after account of the first witness. The soaring and inexplicable triumph of it all.
Giving joyful witness: How the Holy Spirit stirs the restless
Sister Brenda Hernandez Valdes, a 34-year-old Daughter of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe, lives more than 1,500 miles from her home in Coahuila, Mexico, serving the sprawling Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., and ministering to the Hispanics working in its booming oil industry.
The ones who weave: how to repair the social fabric
While lay people honor their legacy, women religious are hosting events of their own – not to pat themselves on the back but to pay it forward, to continue their work of healing a fractured nation.