![We're All Broken People](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/glass__lucent_heart_by_raingarden-470x140.jpg)
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I had a difficult time growing up. It seems to re-emerge occasionally, and I hope that deeper…
![Catholic Quote of the Day - August 3, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/quote21-470x140.jpg)
From today’s Calendar Saint: He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being…
![Mercy](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/divine-mercy-470x140.jpg)
All I can ever receive from God is mercy. I can only receive what He gives in mercy, and all I have left to give…
![empty](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/43974239_58a4803358-333x140.jpg)
I’ve lost my first born son on the feast of St. John, The first of twelve. I think I said more expletives yesterday than I…
![Catholic Quote of the Day - June 25, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/quote21-470x140.jpg)
The patient man goes through a great and salutary purgatory when he grieves more over the malice of one who harms him than for his…
![To my Separated Brethren](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/02/Rembrandt-The_return_of_the_prodigal_son-470x140.jpg)
My appeal would be, do not judge the Catholic Church too hastily. Stand back and get a little perspective before you draw your conclusions. The…
![Neighbour, forgive thyself](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Guest post by Owen Swain. A long time Internet acquaintance wrote about overstepping the boundaries of friendship and the pain that resulted from such presumption….
![Who couldn't use an indulgence?](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I found this link to the “Easiest Plenary Indulgence” on the National Catholic Register site this morning. I’m considering driving out to the Shrine on Friday…