We Are Dust

In 2005, at 6:30 on a frigid Saturday morning, Fr. Augustine "Gus" Donegan, T.O.R. was saying Mass for a chapel crammed with college students preparing to go pray at an abortion clinic. When he reached the pulpit, he paused, surveyed the students and said as sincerely and seriously as anyone could have ever said, "A love without sacrifice is a love that is going to die."


Think about it. Love, true love, without any form of sacrifice, is doomed to die.


What a blessing this Lenten season will be for all the Christian faithful! A time to grow in and intensify our love for God and purify our hearts and minds from all that holds us back from full union with Him whom our souls love!

Let us remember that we are dust and to dust we shall return.


Written by Alycia, Special Events Coordinator for the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm