by Jennie Murphy | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog Articles
Oh God, who through the precious blood of your Son reconciled the world to yourself: today we pray for Christians who live in contexts of war or conflict. May they be seeds of reconciliation, showing mercy and seeking justice, building bridges between divided...
by Jennie Murphy | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog Articles
In the last prayer intention for 2025, the Pope asks us to pray “that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.” On the eve of his first apostolic journey to Türkiye and Lebanon, the...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 28, 2025 | Blog Articles
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 5:3) This is not a statement that receives favorable press. To say that those who learn to live with little will be happy, or that a person with a poor soul will be happy because they will have...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog Articles
Dear friend, thanks to this jubilee of hope, we have journeyed together through meditation on the Pope’s message and The Way of the Heart. Let us now recall the path we have traveled so that we may once again reflect on what we have received. Embrace hope, for...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 14, 2025 | Blog Articles
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 5:3) This is not a statement that receives favorable press. To say that those who learn to live with little will be happy, or that a person with a poor soul will be happy because they will have...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
This month the Pope prays for the prevention of suicide. My daughter Katie lived with a serious mental illness called bipolar disorder for over 11 years, but she finally lost the battle to suicide at the age of 29. In her obituary I wrote this: “So often people...
