Madonna House

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"There are people offering their pain to you as prayer. There are people offering prayers in atonement for misdeeds or grievous sins. There are people offering prayers of supplication, and prayers of petition, and prayers of faith and love and hope. But prayers of joy, I think, are very few. Yet we have most need of you when we are most happy." - Fr. Eddie Doherty, April 2021 Restoration https://www.madonnahouse.org/a-prayer-of-joy-by-fr-eddie-d/

"We say that a person’s eyes are windows to the soul. Well, when almost everyone you meet is wearing a mask, all you can see is their eyes." - Martha Reilander, April 2021 Restoration "After talking on the phone to someone, I was trying to report that we were suffering from 'you know, the chicken thing!' 'Being cooped up,' someone supplied helpfully. We tried not to take out our continuing fatigue, frustration, and discomfort on each other." - Hugo Isaza, April 2021 Restorati...on https://www.madonnahouse.org/notes-from-near-and-far-by-ma/

"As obvious as the Eucharist is showing the Lord’s face, I think we have to be more aware to see God’s back in the ordinary comings and goings." - Therese Fajardo, April 2021 Restoration https://www.madonnahouse.org/gods-back-by-therese-fajardo/

"It is up to us what we are going to make of our lives...a song of love and glory to God, or a monotonously drab existence." - Catherine Doherty 2022 MH Wall Calendar: Little Things Done Exceedingly Well for Love of God https://publications.madonnahouse.com/prod/mh-wall-calendar

"I believe God gives us big pushes through the Spirit at the moment we need them. If they are sudden or dramatic, we can remember them better, and our hope is thereby renewed for ourselves and for others. For we know that if he acted in such a real way in the past, he can act again." - Susanne Stubbs, April 2021 Restoration https://www.madonnahouse.org/the-hope-book-by-susanne-stub/