EASTER REFLECTION – 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
The Easter Story is one that, when we really focus on it, can offer quite a challenge to our faith. The familiar Christmas Story is so much easier to believe! It has a logical progression – The angel Gabriel speaks to Mary. She listens, and accepts God’s plan for her by agreeing to [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION WEEK SIX – 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
We are approaching the difficult time, Jesus. But first we will celebrate Palm Sunday with You. What a happy day that must have been with the smiling crowds chanting and cheering as You rode into the city. They waved palm fronds as You passed by. You smiled and waved to the crowd. You [...]

Thanks to Cathy Goretsky for this about the Stations of the Cross

For a history of the practice of praying the “stations of the cross”, this is an excellent site. It was set up by Fr. Patrick Umberger, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The drawings are done by the children in the Catholic school there. It’s an easy site to use and it [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK FIVE 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
Jesus was a radical. The crowds loved to listen to Him. He had compassion for them; for their problems, for their hunger, and for their illnesses. He amazed those who heard Him preach. The chief priests and the elders of the Sanhedrin didn’t understand this new style of preaching. They saw how people [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK FOUR 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
How often do things turn out the way we planned for them to? We make our plans, do our preparation and set out, and when we least expect it, something happens to change everything. It can be something small or something very significant, but we still wonder what we could have done differently. [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK THREE 2009 by Cathy Goretsky

We find ourselves almost half-way through the Lenten period. It’s a good time to do two things:  One would be to examine our personal goals for the season and identify the places where we have failed to meet those goals. The other would be to re-focus and look at the times when we have been [...]

Lenten Reflection by Cathy Goretsky

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK TWO 2009
By Cathy Goretsky
Saint Mark’s Gospel for the second Sunday of Lent is the one about Jesus’ transfiguration. We know how the story goes. Jesus chooses three of His disciples to accompany Him to the top of a high mountain where they could be away from the others. We can imagine [...]

Thanks to Cathy Goretsky for her well-written Lenten Reflections

LENTEN REFLECTION WEEK ONE – 2009
by Cathy Goretsky
Ash Wednesday arrived this year exactly two months after our joyful and beautiful celebration of Christmas. Now the altar in church no longer has the stately trees decorated with white lights. The Nativity Scene has been put away until next Christmas. Now there is a dry and barren [...]

A New Year’s Poem

Happy New Year!  I am sharing a New Year prayer/poem that I wrote in 1999. I hope you experience many blessings during the coming New Year. Let’s keep other in prayer. Cathy   
NEW YEAR
By Cathy Goretsky
Now I have been given the gift of another chance; a chance to start over.
Each morning is a beginning, the gift [...]