During the summer, our Divine Mercy Parish runs a children's catechism class. Recently, they asked if I would be willing to make a presentation on St. Therese of Lisieux. Immediately ideas were running through my head - How am I going to present a cloistered nun to children between the ages 6 and 12?...
There is so much I wish to say but cannot. I wish to tell them how much this experience has helped me. The smiles that they wear, the love of God they share with me...
I’ve met a woman from Mexico named Rosa. She is 37 years old, has two children, and is suffering from cancer and asthma. She loves to pray the rosary, so one day I asked her, “Would you like to invite our friends to come to your house and we pray the rosary together twice a...
With the lock-down, we at Con-solatio have been joining other volunteers at pop-up food distributions every week throughout Brooklyn. We want to go and serve those in need in these difficult times. Mostly, we want to spend time with them....
I recently met the lady who is a security guard at the nursing home near our house. I went to visit my friends there, and while I was signing-in at the front door, she asked me, "Who are you?" I said, "I am Maria. I am from Vietnam. I am a missionary."...
Due to the current situation, Con-solatio decided to host a series of “Come and See” encounters this month over Skype, and I was blessed with the opportunity to join them!...
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!...
Due to the current situation of the spread of the coronavirus worldwide, the Con-solatio non-profit wants to remind each one of its members about the importance of following the measures recommended by the civil and health authorities of the country where they reside, and of keeping up to date about the changes and developments thereof. We...
Selen Y. lives in our Brooklyn community. There is a women’s homeless shelter that we visit every Tuesday. This facility is specific for women that also suffer from mental illness. What gathers us together is that we sing songs of worship and we pray a decade of the rosary. The women that I encounter at the shelter make me...