by Jennie Murphy | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog Articles
“Now the time has come for a new Jubilee, to open wide the Holy Door once more and offer the living experience of God’s love, which arouses in the heart the certain hope of salvation in Christ.” Pope Francis What is a jubilee and which jubilee is opening this...
by Jennie Murphy | Dec 11, 2024 | Blog Articles
“Hope is the virtue of those who have a young heart; and here, age does not count. Because there are also elderly people with eyes full of light, who live in a permanent look towards the future”. Pope Francis. A young heart, eyes full of light, a look towards the...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog Articles
We lost our son Fabrizio in an accident. In an instant, the “light went out”: silence, darkness, and anguish invaded us. How does one survive a child? I cannot imagine a deeper pain, nor can I communicate the sense of boundless and desperate injustice one feels. We...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog Articles
We have been married for 28 years with two wonderful children, Francis, 22, and Makara, 17. Our journey, however, has not been as easy as it would seem from these first sentences… Our new family’s enthusiasm was immediately quenched by the news, after a fetal...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog Articles
Human logic rejects any loss, especially the loss of loved ones such as a child. The taste of absence is bitter, the silence and emptiness are heartbreaking. It is only the miracle of faith that can make us see life where there is death. A faith that in time becomes...
by Jennie Murphy | Nov 7, 2024 | Blog Articles
In the month of November, when the Church traditionally remembers the faithful departed, the Pope invites people to pray with him for all those who have lost a child. Fathers and mothers who have experienced grief that is “particularly intense” and beyond all human...
