Beginning Again Vocation Maggie fears both cities and

Maggie fears both cities and change

Print of the Blessed Chiara Luce icon by Madonna House member Marysia Kowalchyk

” taught Catherine Doherty

which was a slum in New York’s Manhattan

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Beginning Again Vocation Maggie fears both cities andFor Catherine Doherty, the sacrament of confession is a sacrament of love, of being kissed by Christ, as she so often put it. A sick person goes to a doctor; so a childlike soul goes to Christ to be consoled, to be healed, to be forgiven. It is like a lover running into the arms of the Beloved. When you hear the words of absolution fall on your ears, it is like salve on your wounds. The forgiveness of God envelops you like a mantle, for the