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I hope you were able to take part in the historic event that just occurred on Saturday…Pittsburgh’s First Annual Pro-Life March! But, whether or not you were there in person, I wanted to share some highlights in this post, and to thank everyone who made this amazing day possible: Here we go…(Thanks to our friend […]

This morning, while praying at Planned Parenthood, I happened to look at the front doors just as the sun was shining on them. The electrical box cast a shadow toward the door, and the sunlight’s reflection spilled out onto the sidewalk just opposite the shadow. It suddenly hit me how much they looked like the

Which Day Are You On?  The Fifth Joyful Mystery of the Holy Rosary and the Third Sorrow of the Servite Devotion both dwell on the event of separation of the Christ Child from His parents – a lapse of three days. It brings to my mind how anyone’s life, too, might experience three similar stages:

Planting Seeds We can easily become discouraged while praying in front of PP- there aren’t that many visible “saves”, people curse at us, and pregnant women don’t want to be counseled.  We can think that we are not making a difference, that all of our efforts are in vain.  It is easy to think, “Why

The Passion of Jesus Continues             The last days of Lent from the Fifth Sunday until Holy Thursday are known as Passiontide. In this time, we focus our prayer and contemplation on the Passion and Death of Our Lord. While these events recorded in the Gospels are historical facts, they are also “mysteries” that are

Words of an Angel…my testimony I had already written a blog for today, but as I prayed this morning, I realized that I needed to write a new one. Today, March 25th, is such a special day, that I just couldn’t use the reflection that I had written earlier in the week. Today, for Catholics,

Prophecy Fulfilled… This Sunday is Palm Sunday.  In the Gospel of Matthew for Palm Sunday, we hear: “From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.  And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”, which means, “My God, my God, why have you

“I wish you had been there…“ I just came across this old message that was posted on the 40 DFL website in March of 2021 during the height of covid in response to one of my daily reflections.  Many of you might remember it.  It is burned deeply into my memory and still haunts and

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. John 11:5-6 I hate to suffer. I hate to see anyone else suffer. Very likely, you feel the same way. Had it been up to me, this account would

Don’t Fear the Cowpies!   Let’s admit it. Sometimes, life can be….er….. messy!  Does that prevent us from continuing to put one foot in front of the other? No. Day in and day out, we stalwart soldiers will don our armor and set out to confront who-knows-what. Paralysis is not an option.    Will we encounter hostility near