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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).
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The Light of Your Face

Maureen O'Brien September 25, 2023

Reflect During the Eucharistic prayer, we hear the words, “Remember all who have died in your mercy; welcome them into the light of your face.”

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Quietude

Maureen O'Brien September 22, 2023

Reflect Quietude is a beautiful yet underused word, defined as stillness or calmness in a person or place. Though perhaps we think it is especially

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Changing Me

Maureen O'Brien August 2, 2023

Reflect Meditate today on this sentence, “God, don’t change my circumstances, change me”.  Pray God, instead of asking youto change the outer world,today I simply

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