Spirituality
Marked with the sign of faith
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay God our Father, source of all holiness, the work of Your hands is manifest in your saints, the beauty of your truth is reflected in their faith. May we who aspire to have a part in their joy be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that having shared their […]
The deeper meaning of Sundays
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay Take care to keep my sabbaths, for that is to be the token between you and me throughout the generations, to show that it is I, the Lord, who make you holy. Therefore, you must keep the sabbath as something sacred. – Exodus 31:13b-14 Reality set in with the blisters on my […]
A flood poses: What to keep, or lose?
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights. – Genesis […]
A reminder of God’s face in nature
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night; and he made the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the […]
Waiting on grace a matter of patience, faith
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he has mercy […]
Giving thanks for gifts small and large
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay You are my God, I give You thanks; my God, I offer You praise. Give thanks to the Lord, who is good, whose love endures forever. – Ps. 1 118:28-29 My youngest son sent me one of those funny photos by e-mail “to cheer u up.” It showed a mother tiger with […]
Where is my God?
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay My tears became my bread day and night, as they said to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” – Ps. 42:3 We have the same conversation each time we meet. Most often he happens upon me sitting in the pews of the city church where my spiritual director lives, […]
A beginning, an ending and the Mystery that is both
Catholic New Media Award nominationsCS&T Catholic Spirituality columnist Michelle Francl-Donnay has been nominated for three Catholic New Media Awards:Best Blog by a WomanBest Written BlogMost Spiritual BlogVote for her blog (www.quantumtheology.blogspot.com) by going to this web site: www.catholicnewmediaawards.com Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay Blessed be the Lord forever! Amen and amen! – Ps. 89:53 My four younger […]
Work of our hands can be acts of love, hope
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay Show forth your work to your servants; let your glory shine on their children. Let the favor of the Lord be upon us: give success to the work of our hands, give success to the work of our hands. – Ps. 90:16-17 Thirteen years ago tonight, I tucked a 2-year-old Mike into […]
Arms stretched out between heaven and earth
Guest ColumnistMichelle Francl-Donnay Let your thoughts be on things above, not on the things are on the earth, because you have died and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. – Col. 3:2-3 “If a mad lion was running through the streets, would not a sensible woman shut herself in?” So […]