Tears are falling, hearts are breaking
How we need to hear from God
You’ve been promised, we’ve been waiting
Welcome Holy Child
Welcome Holy Child
Hope that you don’t mind our manger
How I wish we would have known
But long-awaited Holy Stranger
Make Yourself at home
Please make Yourself at home
Bring Your peace into our violence
Bid our hungry souls be filled
Word now breaking […]

I took a wrong turn yesterday. I was driving to a store I don’t often go to and in my -preoccupied Christmas brain- distraction, I took a wrong turn. Getting back to where I needed to be wasn’t a simple matter because my wrong turn put me on a bypass that didn’t have […]

- a new Catholic literary magazine for young adults.
Dappled Things is a new literary magazine dedicated to providing a space for young writers to engage the literary world from a Catholic perspective. The magazine is committed to quality writing that takes advantage of the religious, theological, philosophical, artistic, cultural, and literary heritage of […]

Recently, some very sad, local news events, sparked my curiosity about the growing trend of teenage blogs. Typing some keywords into Google one evening, I was easily able to find quite a few of these blogs, in fact far more that I expected. . . and some of what I found was rather disturbing. In […]

An article from the Fall 2005 issue of Heart and Mind magazine, written by my oldest son Timothy.“I have recently been accepted by my diocese, the Diocese of Harrisburg, to discern the vocation of the priesthood within the seminary. Support and congratulations have come from all over. Shortly after hearing the great news, I was […]

by Elizabeth Foss
Every night, when I put my daughters to sleep, I snuggle next to them under the pink, rose-festooned canopy over their bed. We talk about all sorts of things and I stay until they drift off.
During the quiet time before the blanket of sleep envelopes my little girls, I gaze through the semi-darkness […]