Invitation to Join Ukrainian Catholic Students in prayer for peace on Ash Wednesday-in English!

Invitation to Join Ukrainian Catholic Students in prayer for peace on Ash Wednesday-in English!

Dear Friends of UCU around the world! Pope Francis has called on everyone to organize a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine tomorrow on March 2, Ash Wednesday. On this day we all can share the sufferings of the Ukrainian people, to make everyone feel like brothers and sisters and to pray…

One YES….made all the difference

One YES….made all the difference

The last thing I expected — not even remotely on the radar — was a text I received on Saturday morning around 10am that a friend had been put on palliative care to manage her pain. WHAT?! Her eldest son was on his way in from Boston to California, to join his brother and family…

Ash Wednesday and the promise of a life more audacious than you could ever imagine

Ash Wednesday and the promise of a life more audacious than you could ever imagine

I used to dread Ash Wednesday because of the endless lines of people coming for ashes. By the end of the day, priests look like coal miners.    Sociologists may condescendingly consider the phenomenon of crowds coming for ashes, when they do not enter a church at other times of the year, a habit of tribal…