Timothy Dolan on Hearts

God, our Father, I offer You my day. I offer You my prayers, thoughts, words, actions, joys, and sufferings in union with the Heart of Jesus, who continues to offer Himself in the Eucharist for the salvation of the world.  May the Holy Spirit, Who guided Jesus, be my guide and my strength today so that I may witness to your love.  With Mary, the mother of our Lord and the Church, I pray for all Apostles of Prayer and for the prayer intentions proposed by the Holy Father this month.  Amen.

Pure Expressions of Love Need Not Be Puritan

Granted, they did not celebrate Christmas either. These pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock were so fortified by their aesthetic faith that they left their native land to escape the pageantry and excessive "popery" of the Church of England.

It is rather ironic that one of the biggest contemporary companies that capitalizes on Valentine's Day guilt gifts is located in New England--The Vermont Teddy Bear Company.