Photo Meditations
Pray and reflect with Father Joseph Veneroso’s poems and prayers, and inspiring photos from around the world.
Pilgrimage of Hope
On a city street of asphalt and concrete where last winter’s ice cracks a stubborn sidewalk, a defiant dandelion takes root and proudly Puts forth its floral sunburst. A young couple prays test results will confirm If this time the Lord will at last bless them with...
Longing to Belong
Far, far worse than wandering alone abroad A stranger in an alien nation Is returning to a place you once called home Recognizing words but no longer their meaning Seeing unfamiliar faces on friends and family Then realizing, to your shock, it was not they But you who...
God of Holy Liberation
You, who delivered us when we were still enslaved By sin and selfishness, do not abandon us Now in our time of despair nor turn your face From our pitiful plight when all else fails And faithless friends flee, But come to us again in our hour of need. Not from among...
Laudate Deum
Let all that was and is and will ever be Praise God from whom all creation erupts Like a million billion galaxies and hummingbirds Like swans, planets, centipedes and stars Things visible and invisible like Jellyfish, quasars, magnetic fields and gravity Microbes,...
Light in the Darkest Hour
On the darkest hour of the darkest day When lust for power corrupted the best And people willingly traded their souls For the right to rule and ride roughshod Over the foreigner, the poor, the Other, It is then, always then, that holy Wisdom Explodes silently upon an...
In the Spirit of St. Francis
Lord, make me a witness to your truth. Turn my eyes from evil. Close my ears to falsehood. Shield my mind from the temptation To judge others who sin differently than I. Seal my lips from adding to the noise Of a world that worships power, Rewards greed and sacrifices...
On The Bumpy Road to Emmaus
With broken hearts, dashed hopes and bowed heads Defeated and deflated we make our mournful way Far from the pain of shattered dreams that is Jerusalem Toward some supposed safety known as Emmaus. Ever lengthening shadows and fast descending darkness Magnify the...
Thus Says the Lord
Consider Isaiah’s vision of virgin birth And God’s suffering servant singing centuries Before the cross ever took shape. Thus he revealed Suffering’s power to redeem, liberate and transform The nations into a new Chosen People, compelled To climb, conquer and...
Word Made Flesh
Winter 2023
Mission Mysteries of the Rosary
Fall 2022
Sacred & Wounded
Summer 2022
The Mission of the Magdalene
Spring 2022
Behold, I make all things new
Winter 2022
Community of Sinners, Community of Saints
Fall 2021
Breaking of the Bread
Summer 2021
From Ashes to Easter
Spring 2021
Joseph, the Carpenter
Winter 2021
The First Sacrament
September / October 2020
Our Better Angels
July / August 2020
Love’s Visitation
May / June 2020
A Sacrifice of Praise
March / April 2020
Finding Lost Hope
in the Temple
January / February 2020
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