From November 16, 2020

I am feeling the hell of isolation. Hope is dying. But this is OK because it pushes me deeper into prayer. Oh God, give me wisdom, give me strength, give me courage. Help me not to lose my temper.

From November 15, 2020

In discussing Covid-19 in an interview for The Tablet, Pope Francis mentioned the Spanish phrase, “God always forgives, we forgive but, sometimes, nature never forgives.”

From November 14, 2020

Yesterday was the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was born in a small village south of Milan, Italy. Robert Ellsberg writes, “Trained as a teacher, she dreamed of becoming a missionary to China.” I had a similar dream as a teenager, a dream that led me to a Vincentian Minor Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. The dream died.