- By Melannie Svoboda SND
Next Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent Advent is the season of the church year that celebrates dreams and miracles The dry parched desert can burst into a field of poppies and forget me nots 8230 Helpless little lambs can snuggle next to mighty ferocious lions 8230 A wild
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
Deborah Meister a writer and artist in St Louis MO tells this true story She was in the church parking lot before Mass one Sunday and overheard a child arguing with his parents 8220 But I don 8217 t want to go to church 8221 he cried 8220 It 8217
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
This is the first paragraph in Frank Bruni 8217 s book The Beauty of Dusk They say that death comes like a thief in the night Lesser vandals have the same MO The affliction that stole my vision or at least a big chunk of it did so as I
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
As many of you know I collect quotations I have drawers of 3 X 5 cards filled with thousands of quotes from a wide variety of people I started doing this as a college student I file my quotes under topics such as adversity beauty happiness Jesus love prayer writing
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
A good friend handed me a book the other day saying 8220 Here I think you might like this book 8221 The book is Inspiration Sandwich by an artist named SARK Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy My friend was right I really enjoyed this unique and highly imaginative book In one
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
I can 8217 t let autumn fly by without a few thoughts on this beautiful time of the year So today I 8217 ve put together some brief reflections on this season by four writers 8212 all happen to be women The first is a quote by George Eliot 8212
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
As we know there 8217 s a very important meeting taking place in Rome right now It is the Synod on Synodality I wrote something about it on my October 2 post The Synod runs from October 4 29 But it began on October 1 with a three day retreat
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
There 8217 s a famous black and white photo from the Third Reich taken in Hamburg Germany in 1936 It shows a crowd of shipyard workers a hundred or more with their right hands raised saluting their allegiance to Adolf Hitler But if you look more closely you see one
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
Recently Eric my grandnephew and Mary Ann were married Mary Ann 8217 s father Ron is a deacon at the nearby church and he presided at the service Deacon Ron wanted to walk his daughter down the aisle in a suit 8212 not his clerical clothes This meant he had
- By Melannie Svoboda SND
Brandon Chrostowski founder of Edwins Restaurant in Cleveland Ohio knows all about second chances At 18 he was arrested for dealing drugs and was facing five to ten years in prison Instead the judge gave him probation Because of this second chance Brandon turned his life around He went back
