Tagged: inspiration

The Mail

Thanks to one statement in Fr. Dennis J. Billy’s article (March 2015), I can admit during the time that I was a nonpracticing Catholic, my experience of “foretasting of heaven” started. My first “intense experience of the divine” was in 2002, when I was driven to my heavenly home by...

Father Ari and the Missing Tree

Written by Joseph M. Malham December 2001 (based on a true story) Father Ari Damaskos has always loved Christmas. If he could, he would celebrate it every day of the year, not because of the gifts and parties and childlike sense of excitement, but because of the love and peace...

What Words Can’t Convey

Many years ago my family and I visited the beautiful Basilica of Our Lady of Avioth in France, just across the border from Belgium. This medieval church is believed to house a miraculous statue of Mary. The church is unusually large for the small village in which it dwells, but...