by St Anthony | Jun 19, 2025 | Display On Reflections
What is Juneteenth? If you are like me, you may know little about the history of this federal holiday created in 2021, so let me share a brief history. We may remember from our history classes that the first enslaved African people arrived in what was to become the U...
by St Anthony | Jun 12, 2025 | Display On Reflections
The Book of Genesis (1:26) tells us we were all made in God’s image and likeness. Yet how can that be when human beings all have different shades of skin, different genders, different facial features, different abilities, different limitations? Image and likeness must...
by St Anthony | Jun 5, 2025 | Display On Reflections
I am fortunate to receive an issue of the Smithsonian magazine every month, courtesy of a gift subscription. (Thanks, Mom!) Each issue brings well-researched, well-written, and beautifully illustrated stories on a rich variety of topics that takes the reader on...
by St Anthony | May 29, 2025 | Display On Reflections
One of my favorite books is “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury. It is the story of a summer in the lives of Douglas Spaulding and John Huff, and relates all the adventures that two 12-year-old boys can create in a small Illinois town during the 1930’s. And now that...
by St Anthony | May 22, 2025 | Display On Reflections
“With the presence of great understanding and freedom in us, we can embrace hardships countless times without fear.” – Thich Nhat Hanh Around three in the morning, the massive evergreen branches, heavily laden with ice, began to fall. The ground shook with their...
by St Anthony | May 15, 2025 | Display On Reflections
We have a Pope! Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost born in Chicago, a midwesterner. According to the Vatican News in his biography, “The first Augustinian Pope, Leo XIV is the second Roman Pontiff – after Pope Francis – from the...
