Create in Me a New Heart, O Lord, and a Steadfast Spirit Renew Within Me
John and Dolores Warwick are Catholics of extraordinary grace and faith. John has been writing to me from Pittsburgh, PA for about five years, and I am proud to say he is a reader and commenter on...
View ArticlePentecost, Priesthood, and Death in the Afternoon
On his 32nd ordination anniversary Fr Gordon MacRae writes of Priesthood, Pentecost, and the Jewish Festival of Shavu’ot as death draws near on a prison afternoon. “I said, in the noontide of my days...
View ArticleAdvent of the Mother of God
Delving more deeply into the Gospel of Saint Luke lifts a corner of the veil to witness the birth of the Messiah through the lens of a soul that magnifies the Lord. My first Advent post on These Stone...
View ArticleA Lenten Stroll Down the Back Woods of A Soul
In three brief Lenten stories, Father Gordon MacRae unwinds the subtle threads connecting even the mundane events of the days of our lives in a tapestry of grace. Several years ago in this prison, I...
View ArticleCreate in Me a New Heart, O Lord, and a Steadfast Spirit Renew Within Me
. . . I learned that a donor heart had been found for Christopher. As I write this he is in the middle of an eight to ten hour heart transplant surgery at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. The days and...
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