Wendy's Blog

As most of you know I have a passion for my faith and science. During prayer time today, something popped into my head. Each one of us is like a cell in a body...our bodies contain 50 trillion cells. I thought about how some of us are striving for holiness and some of us are rather content living in our lower nature...then there are those who are hell bent on destroying others...you get the picture. We each represent a cell, and the Earth would represent our collective body. I think...

It was August 2006 and the strongest woman I ever knew was dying....my Grandma McNamara. We were very, very close.  She taught me how to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and a few days before she passed into eternal life, she asked me to pray it for her.  She was to weak too say more than a few words at a time. Then my mom (her daughter) passed into eternal life, just two years later.  I was full of grief and began to doubt my faith...in fact, I left...

DAY 9 – Fulton Sheen Novena The better we become, the less conscious we are of our goodness. If anyone admits to being a saint, he is close to being a devil. Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that of all men, he was the most perfect, but he had so many cracks in his soul that he abandoned his children after their birth. The more saintly we become, the less conscious we are of being holy. A child is cute so long as he does not know that he is cute....

DAY 8 – Fulton Sheen Novena If we followed the same rules for health that we do about religion, we would all be bedridden. It is not enough to talk about the necessity of health; we must do something practical about it – for example, eat, exercise, and rest. So it is with religion. We must nourish ourselves with the truths of God, exercise our spiritual muscles in prayer, mortify ourselves of those things which are harmful to the soul, and be just as scrupulous in avoiding moral evil as...

DAY 7 – Fulton Sheen Novena Mary is not only mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but she is also our mother, and this is not by a title of courtesy, not by legal fiction, not by a mere figure of speech, but by the right of bringing us forth in sorrow at the foot of the cross. Mary, by sacrifice and obedience, regained for us the title, Mother of the living. What a destiny to have the Mother of God as my Mother and Jesus as my...

DAY 6 – Fulton Sheen Novena Burning the candle at both ends for God’s sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise for so much better the light! Only one thing in life matters: Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the Kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case,...