Give Thanks for the Emptiness
Maureen O'Brien
November 12, 2024
I walked last night down past the houses until there was only a wildlife refuge, dunes on the left, empty beach on the right.
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Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien's award-winning short stories and poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. She lives in Connecticut, where taught creative writing to teenagers for 25 years. She holds an MA in creative writing and a BA in philosophy and religion. She is the author of What Was Lost: Seeking Refuge in the Psalms and Gather the Fragments: My Year of Finding God’s Love (Franciscan Media).
A Circle Whose Center Is Everywhere
Maureen O'Brien
November 9, 2024
There is a quote attributed to St. Bonaventure that is worth pondering, again and again: “God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.”
Trusting the Place Where We Are
Maureen O'Brien
October 28, 2024
The life of St. Clare offers us so many ways to model a life of faith in Christ.
Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making
Maureen O'Brien
October 25, 2024
“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.
Our Lady of Champion
Maureen O'Brien
October 9, 2024
There is only one Church-approved apparition of Mary in the United States. Our Lady of Champion, in gleaming light among autumnal trees, appeared three times to Adele Brise in Champion, Wisconsin, in 1859.
Prayer for All Mothers
Maureen O'Brien
October 2, 2024
Because motherhood requires women to offer so much of their own spirits, it can lead to feeling depleted.
Following the Path of Francis
Maureen O'Brien
September 25, 2024
Ilia Delio writes, “The Franciscan path is different because it does not ask, ‘What would Jesus do?’ but, ‘How does Jesus live in me?’”
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