surrender

With every cross life offers us comes the invitation to accept it, embrace it, even to kiss the cross presented to us, as we do on Good Friday.

He believes it was people’s prayers for an increase in priestly vocations that allowed him to listen to the quiet “tug” in his heart.

“It is necessary to sit in the school of Advent so that we can learn that in our darkest hour it is safe to trust and that perhaps, it is in our darkest hour, that it is safest to trust.”

Lori Mayer-Perowitz’s story may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.

As nearly any of their Christmas shopping lists would suggest, parents know all about surrendering wants and desires — primarily, their wants and desires — for the sake of their children. Going “without,” or with less, is part and parcel of “surrender.”