Tag: Carmelite
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A Remarkable Summer – Renewal and Healing
I’m not sure where to start. Ok, let’s start on May 3rd, the day I turned seventy… This was a tough birthday, full of thought and the realization that if there were things left undone or dreams still needing to be fulfilled I’d better get with it. I have a family history of longevity but…
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The Gift of a Relic!
Last Sunday, one of our parish priests pulled me aside specifically to tell me he had a relic of Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Carmelite friar who was murdered (martyred) July 26, 1942 in a Dachau concentration camp hospital by lethal injection, and is to be beatified May 15, 2022, in Rome. But his next statement…
