from Barbara Lee
Meet St. Thérèse of Lisieux On page 6 of this issue Pope Benedict XVI talks about saints. He was speaking to his audience about what makes a saint – holiness and sanctity – and he encouraged everyone to try to be a saint. He mentioned that these summer months are just the right time to pick up a book, the biography or the autobiography of a saint. Oddly, I had just done that. I picked up Conrad de Meester’s new revised edition of “With Empty Hands,” a well written biography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In fact, “With Empty Hands” prompted me to pick up St. Thérèse’s autobiography, “Story of a Soul.”
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from Barbara Lee
The Gift of Daily Mass One of the real gifts of working for the Catholic Church is the ability to attend daily Mass. Being able to walk from my desk to a pew in the chapel of the Diocesan Pastoral Center or in the Cathedral of the Madeleine gives me the opportunity to start each day with Mass – the pivotal prayer of the church.
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from Barbara Lee
I wasn't ready for it Although my mother was 89 years old, I wasn’t ready for her death. The telephone call from the care facility in which she had lived for the past 4 years, telling me she had passed away in her sleep, had me in tears immediately. It took me an hour to be able to pull myself together, call other family members, and start making plans to fly home to Phoenix.
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from Barbara Lee
Recalling my high school graduation When it comes time to cover the diocese’s three high school graduations, I am reminded of my own high school graduation in 1969. I can’t remember who the speakers were. I only know I was there.
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from Barbara Lee
God bless thoughtful people Nikki and Stitches were not our children. They were our dogs. Jack and I aren’t the kind of childless couple who believe our pets are stand-ins for children, but we do believe pets are part of the family. So when Nikki and Stitches died within three weeks of each other there was plenty of grief to go around. We wept all over the cats, who, with the dogs, made up our “Warm Fur Society,” what with their habit of all sleeping in the same sunbeam. We wept all over our very compassionate veterinarian and his staff, who helped us through the whole process, not once, but twice.
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from Barbara Lee
With food prices rising, join a community co-op My husband, Jack and I have Father Martin Diaz, pastor of St. Therese of the Child Jesus Parish, Midvale, to thank for suggesting we get involved with the Community Food Co-op of Utah.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s message of hope A young woman was quoted by Catholic News Service at the close of Pope Benedict XVI’s rally with young people. “He believes is us more than we believe in ourselves.”
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