Quarantine Creativity: A Renewed “Yes”
Greetings from Romania, where we have entered into a strict quarantine, in communion with so many of you. Thus, we stopped visiting our friends in their homes, but continued to welcome children into ours....
Greetings from Romania, where we have entered into a strict quarantine, in communion with so many of you. Thus, we stopped visiting our friends in their homes, but continued to welcome children into ours....
“You should pick the room we enter… I choose every single week.” “…but I'm nervous! I will next time, but can you pick just one more time?” “Nope! You can this time." “Ahhh fine… let's enter this one!”...
Like many of you, I felt a great shock followed by a great disappointment with the announcement that all churches would be closed indefinitely. As I was still trying to process how I could continue to live this holy season of Lent and Easter without the normal support of my local church, I received a...
The word “quarantine” comes from the Latin root "quadraginta," meaning “forty.” The word for Lent in many romance languages comes from this root – Carême (French), Cuaresma (Spanish), and Quaresima (Italian). So as we live the quarantine, we are very literally living Lent!...
Beth shares her experience of visiting her daughter, Justine, on mission in Senegal. On a sandy side street of a densely populated area, the mission home in Dakar, Senegal beats with the presence of the Holy Sacrament in the chapel of a corner room. I witnessed the disciplined life of prayer that my daughter, Justine (USA),...