Tag: mary

Written by Father Don Farnan

Our Lady of the Americas

Advent is a time to believe in impossible things.  Prophetic writers foretell of a virgin birth, and scriptural passages that dominate our liturgical gatherings this month offer scenes in which wolf and lamb, lion and goat, leopard and calf coexist in peace.  Though it is not impossible to conceive of a world where predator and […]

Written by Father Don Farnan

Holy Mother, Hold Me

In the mid-1980s, when Eric Clapton was going through dark personal struggles and loss, he wrote a beautiful song, Holy Mother.  It is a prayer of surrender which expresses his conversion from being self-centered to being centered in the mystery of life, God, and connecting to others in efforts that contribute to society’s good rather […]