![Saint of the Week, Mary MacKillop](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/MaryMackillop1-470x140.jpg)
“She dedicated herself as a young woman to the education of the poor in the difficult and demanding terrain of rural Australia, inspiring other women…
![Invitation](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/prayer-470x140.jpg)
I’ve walked this long, bloody road of love to the Kingdom. I can testify that people that are near me for any length of time…
![The Gift of Faith 2](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/01/IMG_4053-470x140.jpg)
Holy Water; Holy Salt; Blessed Sacramentals; First, Second, and Third Degree Relics; Lourdes Water; now add to the list, Holy Sand. Has the Church lost…
![The Mystery of Redemptive Pain](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/primopiano2wd1-338x140.jpg)
My Lord and my God. In agony, the suffering of a bloody Lord is the only remedy of a broken heart. Often I have imagined…
![holy family](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/4451190660_81982d03cb-e1376845719885-316x140.jpg)
Not long after we moved into our new home, I developed acute mastitis suddenly in the middle of the night. Newly pregnant, I was uncomfortable…
![The Body is Wounded](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/01/1280px-Enguerrand_Quarton_La_Pieta_de_Villeneuve-les-Avignon_c._1455-470x140.jpg)
The body is wounded. Broken for our transgressions. Presented for our healing. And divided again by our iniquities. A voice cries out in the wilderness:…
![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….
![Exposed](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/03/st-stephen-s-adoration-chapel-470x140.jpg)
I was unexpectedly favored with a visit with Our Lord in Eucharistic Adoration this past weekend. I am fortunate to live near the only officially…