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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).

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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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.”

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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.