by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Image
In March of 1592, outside of Barcelona, 31-year-old Iñigo de Loyola, our present-day St. Ignatius, made an all-night vigil before Our Lady of Montserrat. On his knees. Candlelit shrine. Black Madonna at the Benedictine Monastery. Can you see the young knight in his...
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde | Jul 2, 2021 | Featured Image
“No one wears their uniform on the first day of school.” She whispered those words to me on the playground outside Sacred Heart. Her tone felt like scalding water to my ear drums. It was my first day of 4th grade at Sacred Heart Elementary in Norfolk, Nebraska. After...
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde | Jun 25, 2021 | Featured Image
We are here because of a cannonball. On May 20, 1521, while in a heavily outweighed battle against the French, Basque soldier Iñigo Lopez de Loyola was struck by a cannonball in Pamplona. His leg was shattered, and he was carried home by the defeating army to...
by Tom Allen | Jun 18, 2021 | Featured Image
I went on retreat 8 years ago during a difficult time of coping with my wife’s journey with young onset Alzheimer’s. I felt drawn to write this story based on Jacob’s wrestling with the angel from the Old Testament. It has given me a sense of purpose and coherence. As...
by Dan Johnson | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured Image
Having experienced decades of winters here in Minnesota, I really enjoy the vibrancy of spring. The last two months of trees budding, crocuses blooming, and grass greening, shouted, “Life is here!” This spring has been especially life-filled as the winter of the...
by Susanna Bertelsen | May 25, 2021 | Featured Image
In the middle of the season of spring, the month of May “bursts” in, inviting renewed energy, warm sun, cleansing rains, greening of trees and colorful blossoms. Natural movements in nature, carry us from the cold of winter to the warm sprouts of spring, awaking...
