Mercy Moments
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.” Dorothy Day “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” St. Ignatius…
Read MoreCreated and hosted by Marissa Flores Madden “Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land. Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you…
Read More“Family may be sacred, but community has a holy dimension of its own. Blood is never the only thing that binds us. It is often the ties we choose that…
Read More“Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.” – Pope Francis “Our job is to…
Read More“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to…
Read More“Then when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he felt remorse… and he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and left; and…
Read More*The following episode contains anecdotes from an old friend. Due to the nature of his status in the United States, all identifying information has been redacted. Mercy Moments: Our lives…
Read More…I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle…
Read MoreWe were on time. Being on time is not a part of our genetic make-up. But today was special. I sat in a far back pew with my brother and…
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