Messenger (Page 31)

PJ’s Page    In the liturgical year we have entered the season of Ordinary Time.  Some call this time of year between Holy Trinity Sunday (which was June 15th) and Christ the King Sunday (the last Sunday before Advent) the season of rest.  While the rest of the liturgical year propels us along with  feasts and celebrations, Ordinary Time allows us to be in the blessing of…

PJ’s Page – Recently I opened a bottle of lemonade to find this phrase under the bottle top:  “Consuming this product may cause joy!”  While the lemonade was delicious, what caused my joy was the very subtle reminder of all of the reasons that I had reason to be filled with joy…and they weren’t necessarily related to the lemonade. Of course, it was a vocational certainty…

PJ’s Page “I watch what I do to see what I really believe.”   ~Sister Helen Prejean     I came across this quote recently and it has stayed in my mind and spirit ever since.  Sister Helen Prejean’s work with inmates on death row is the subject of the book (and later the movie) “Dead Man Walking.”  But what draws me into this quote is the way that she moved from belief to…