Education is the ToolMaureen Crowley Heil
Many times, while visiting the missions, I spend time driving for hours past unfamiliar sights. One day in Uganda, it was half-constructed buildings being used as roadside stores and homes, chickens and ...
Living Water for the Missions Maureen Crowley Heil
How many faucets, sinks, and toilets do you have in your home? If you live in a house, you probably have outside spigots to which you can attach your hose to water your lawn or garden. They are literally ...
The Kindness of StrangersMaureen Crowley Heil
Peter Chiopsa was just five years old when his father passed away. This loss forced his mother to resign from her local teaching job in a rural village in Malawi and move the family to the city for work ...
Missionaries on Pilgrimage Maureen Crowley Heil
Born in 1156, Saint Bona of Pisa, Italy, lived a difficult life. When she was three years old, she was told that her father had disappeared while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, leaving her to be raised ...
TraditionsMaureen Crowley Heil
If your family is anything like mine, you have lots of time-worn traditions. From what meals you eat on which holiday to who sits where at the table, some things are carved in stone. Easter must be a ...
I'm a Witness Maureen Crowley Heil
"Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses." (Pope Paul VI, EN 41) My Catholic high school was small. At 305 ...
Honoring Mothers at Home and In the MissionsMaureen Crowley Heil
In many countries in the missions, women are responsible for the daily collection of water used by their family. Sometimes, they must walk miles to do so. Think of the difficulty of the return trip. A ...
A Marathon of Our Own Maureen Crowley Heil
Because I'm in Boston (the Hub of the Universe -- ask any native Bostonian), at this time of year, all things are focused on THE Marathon. Sure, there are 26.2-mile foot races in other cities, but ...
