Monthly Archives: September 2012

With only a little more than a month before the 2012 presidential election, EWTN is asking Catholics and anyone interested in preserving the religious freedom we enjoy in the United States of America to pray a novena beginning tomorrow, Saturday, … Continue reading →

It seems like only yesterday that I had a dumb cell phone.  All it could do is what, well, cell phones were invented to do:  make and receive phone calls. Then I got a smart phone.  It has email, internet, … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had a “cleaning spree” here at Mission Youth and I found this beautiful testimony of a missionary who went to Haiti this past year. Amazing what one week away from all and centered in others can do to … Continue reading →

During the novena before the feast of the Sacred Heart, I would receive a little note under my door each day. It had a paragraph reflecting on Christ’s heart and his love for us – moreover, in English. I appreciated … Continue reading →

No one heals himself by wounding another. – Saint Ambrose More and more parents are telling me about an increase of bullying among kids. Girls who exclude certain girls from a party or event (even though this girl might be … Continue reading →

“As she walked through the door, the first words out of her mouth were, ‘Thank you for giving me life.’” This is what a birth mother heard from her daughter at their recent reunion.  This daughter had sought to meet … Continue reading →

The sun beats down. Hour by hour the petals on the flower wither, turn brown, and fall off. The grass turns brown despite daily watering. A fan is needed in the shade. The sweat forms on my arm. It evaporates … Continue reading →

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” ― C.S. Lewis Close to ninety years ago, my grandfather, Gerald Delbeke, boarded an ocean liner and left Belgium for Ellis Island. He only spoke Flemish, he knew nobody in America, … Continue reading →

When I tell my fellow Americans that I live in Monterrey, Mexico, their first question is often, “And are things okay there?” The drug-related violence in Monterrey and in the state of Nuevo León has been escalating in recent years, … Continue reading →

The soul of woman must…be expansive and open to all human beings; it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds; clear, so that no … Continue reading →