by Shelley Douglass Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace We’ve been through Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and now the Christmas season is waning. It’s no longer “Sunday, Week 1” every day at morning prayer, although we do still have special readings. Soon we will be back in ordinary time: psalms, antiphons, readings, prayers – no more … Continue reading REFLECTION: A year for hospitality, for opening doors
REFLECTION: In Birmingham, hope and poverty in the belly of the beast
by Shelley Douglass Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace I live in Ensley, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama. For the last nineteen years I’ve been hospitaller at Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality primarily for families. I sleep in what was a sun porch, a small room with lots of … Continue reading REFLECTION: In Birmingham, hope and poverty in the belly of the beast