Memorable Graces

Memorable GracesBlessed Solanus Casey lived a life without the spectacle thats common in biographies of the saints without the drama and gore we find in the stories of the martyrs. History remembers him for his hospitality, his listening ear, his simple counsel, his profound charity. He reached people, not large congregations, but ordinary people, one by one, one on one. He accepted this role obediently when his religious order judged him unfit for preaching and

she helps mark a new age in Catholic letters

parish community or individual

How should those of us who have been called to marriage take the celibate priesthood as our example

In its pages you’ll find holiness

" -George David Clark

His brother Dominicans recalled that he would spend long hours kneeling before the tabernacle

’ The intimacy of these poems will break and mend your soul in the natural world they root you in: ‘Cooldark

without sacrificing a sense of mystery

At a time when “religion” is equated with small-mindedness and intolerance

Pennsylvania

his years as bishop and archbishop

she tells us “The moon sings white noise / through clouds and light pollution” and it is that singing that speaks to me most: how even the bleakest moments contain beauty