Hope and Resilience

Blog Writer Margaret Zacharias offers a special journey into Holy Week with a story of Eastern Orthodox icons that spans centuries and countries. The treasure-filled history weaves in saintly and angelic visions given to a Swiss housewife, schoolboys’ antics, and brings us to an underground chapel at a monastery in Ireland for a special anniversary on Easter Monday.

Mass on the Rock

Blog Author Margaret Zacharias guides readers on an Irish pilgrimage to the birthplace of Boys Town founder and Servant of God Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan. The blustery winds of the Roscommon wilds bring them to Mass to pray for his advancement to Beatification at a mystical spot called “the Rock.”