by Chris Manion | Jul 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I didn’t realize it was one of those spiritual questions at the time. “What do you want me to do now?” Mom asked Dad and me. She’d been in the ICU for seven weeks fighting sepsis—the body’s overreaction to an infection. It threatens...
by Chris Manion | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog, Writing
Facing your fear is a part of life these days. You find yourself distracted, unable to focus. Unable to work. To write. To do much of anything. Using an old pattern of thinking and analyzing things, you may view this pandemonium as avoidance and not facing your fear....
by Chris Manion | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Writing
Doing Lent together? Do you have a sense of this? Most of us go through Lent in a private way. Perhaps that’s not the best way. If you’ll join me in our Lenten journey together, I must tell you I’ve already failed my Lenten practice and it’s...
by Chris Manion | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog
Have you ever heard of St. Padre Pio? I did not know of him until a kind friend, Shiela, introduced me to the magazine that tells of his many miracles. Padre Pio was a Capuchin monk born Francesco Forgione in Pietrelcina, located in southern Italy on May 25, 1887. His...
by Chris Manion | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog, Writing
God answers prayers. I heard this all my life and was pretty sure people who told me this might be slightly mistaken. It seemed to me that I didn’t get any answers when I prayed. Sure, every once in a while, I’d pay attention to the fact that I did get...
