Blessed four days Anytime I end a Lent I am bless to be given knowledge in our Lord’s direction for my life.  I find I can be off kilter in my direction in part because of impatience and my prideful resolve I know or at least I think I know His plan which is generally wrong.  Thankfully I do not mess up His Divine will as to shatter it but detour here and there.  Our Lord knows how to reign me in and I am fined tuned into hearing Him when I fast and block out the world as I did in these last four days before Easter.  Prayer is the center of my life during the noises of the world but it is in the quiet I hear Our Lord divorced of glaring injustices, sadness, and heart-breaking stories about the abuse of children.  There is religious intolerance and persecution not to mention hatred all which crowds the heart and mind. My time at POONDI MADHA BASILICA was truly miraculous in many ways one I will share is meeting children who bought a quiet innoc...

HOLY WEEK 2015 I am leaving Holy Thursday at 4 a.m. for a retreat ending on Easter at Poondi Madha Basilica, India.  I am happy to be able to spend Holy Week there and visit with the nuns at the Convent.  As I have said before it is the most peaceful place where for a few days cut off from the problems of the world and can easily stay focused on my spiritual time of communing with Our Lord in prayer and meditation.  External disruptions, stresses and anxieties are mute. Wishing all a BLESSED HOLY WEEK AND SPIRIT FILLED EASTER!    Photograph taken on Palm Sunday Weekend 2014. ©Linda Mary Liotino ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION 2015