Fr. Chuck's Blog

March is Women's History Month, so let's highlight and honor holy women of God in the Catholic Church! Today: St. Frances of Rome (1384–1440). Her selfless service included using part of her home as a hospital when plagues swept through Italy. Her feast day is March 9. For more of her inspiring story, click on the picture or the headline.

To give us all a chance to better appreciate our significance and purpose in life, St. Wenceslaus is joining an archdiocese-wide Lenten initiative: Viewing an award-winning series called “The Search.” It tackles core questions of life, examining the many options you have and the many signposts that point you to life-enriching answers.

As I finished my first time through the Surrender Novena last week, I got to thinking about conscious and explicit surrender to God the Father and to the Holy Spirit, too. Flowing from that thought, I humbly propose the following variation on the novena prayer...

Dear Readers, May our God bear fruit, fruit that will last (see John 15:15), from this first time through the Surrender Novena for me and anyone's who's joined me in my "real-time" posting of these nine days which started Wednesday a week ago. Of course, I hope this series of posts may bless anyone who comes upon them later, as well...

Dear Readers, please note that I am making these posts as I pray this Novena of Surrender for the first time. I've decided not to look ahead and am only posting each day's message as I come to it. So consider that each message may have historical and cultural contexts and background information about the spirituality of its author, Servant of God Don Dolindo Ruotolo, of which I am unaware. About those sorts of things...

Blog readers, please note that I am making these posts as I pray this Novena of Surrender for the first time. I've decided not to look ahead and am only posting each meditation/reflection as I come to it. So consider that each message may have historical and cultural contexts as well as background information about the spirituality of its author, Servant of God Don Dolindo Ruotolo, of which I am unaware. About those sorts of things, I'm choosing not to delve into them for this first time through...