Two of my friends and I set out one blustery Friday April afternoon from
St. Paul, Minnesota for Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We were excited to
spend a weekend together at the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls women’s
conference despite the forecast a blizzard sweeping through the upper
Midwest. We managed to make it to our hotel a couple of hours before
snow began to fall, but when we woke up on Saturday morning the blizzard
had arrived in full force. It took until the end of my sixth winter
living in Minnesota to see my first real blizzard, and I ended up being
in South Dakota for it. Perhaps the flatness of the prairie intensified
the winds, but I heard that the Twin Cities looked about the same as
Sioux Falls.
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NCRegister Blog: Easter Hope is for Those who Sorrow
I meditated on the Joyful mysteries to the thump of my feet on the treadmill in the early silence of Holy Saturday morning. Hail Mary, full of grace... The almost wail-like tone of the chanting of the end of the Passion of St. John
echoed in my head from the liturgy of Good Friday. It brought me back
to another Saturday morning run on the treadmill when my heart was full
of hope after I learned I was newly pregnant last Fall. The hope only
lasted a few weeks as our baby passed away
too soon. While I prayed the rosary my heart ached for our Blessed
Mother as I contemplated how her search for the child Jesus in the
Temple was a precursor to the laying of her dead son in the Tomb. With
all of her sorrow she had to trust in God’s plan and walk away from the
body of her son.
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