“I am aware of the many ways the Church has failed me, and I have failed her. Yet in the midst of these mutual failures, I claim this Church as mine. She is my Church, my home, my mother. I… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“I am aware of the many ways the Church has failed me, and I have failed her. Yet in the midst of these mutual… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.” — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing like sorrow to get your attention. It is almost as though sorrow pulls presence out of you. In the midst of sorrow… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.” — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“I wind in and out of people’s lives. Having touched them, I am blessed. Having touched me, they are blessed. Our roots are deepened.… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“The seasons of my heart change like the seasons of the fields. There are seasons of wonder and hope, seasons of suffering and love,… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“All too often we bemoan our imperfections rather than embrace them as part of the process in which we are brought to God. Cherished… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“We have not been abandoned. We have, perhaps, in that leaving been given the gift of ourselves in a new, deeper, and more lasting… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.” — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
