A funeral Mass for Religious Sister of Mercy Mary Joannes Clifford , a beloved figure to many in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will be offered Nov. 9 at Mercy High School in Baltimore.Read More
It has been a whirlwind of a week for me here at John Carroll Campus Ministry: our first overnight Junior Retreat of this school year, the start of the second marking period (where has the time gone?), Halloween, the first day of November (again, where has the time gone?), andRead More
“Come Apart and Rest Awhile”This Monday and Tuesday marked the first overnight retreat of this school year for my John Carroll juniors. For several decades we have taken our kids to the Msgr. O’Dwyer Retreat House, the former CYO retreat house on York Road in Sparks, MD.Founded in 1963 by Msgr.Read More
When patients bring me three page birth plans, I have to laugh, my OB said. "I tell them that the opposite will happen. If they'd just relax and realize it's all in God's hands, everything would be better."She and I were finalizing my "birth plan," or my preferences for deliveringRead More
Leo’s birthday comes not long after Halloween. That hadn't really occurred to me until the first October when we went shopping for birthday plates and napkins at a party store.Leo, who was almost 4, stood and stared at a zombie holding a bleeding arm and a grim reaper dripping withRead More