Mary Marrocco
Dr. Mary Marrocco is an associate secretary for the Canadian Council of Churches. She is also a teacher, writer and lay pastoral worker. Her column, Questioning Faith, features topics about the teachings of our church, scriptures, the lives and writings of the saints and spiritual writers and theologians. She can be reached at marrocco7@sympatico.ca.
What’s the best way to wake a sleeper? Throw cold water? Tickle the feet or play loud music?
Questioning Faith: What would it mean to truly love others?
Mary Marrocco: Keeping faith in calm and chaos
Three gifts sure to make Christmas bright
Comment: There is light behind shadows of grief
Martyrdom is about much more than suffering
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”
Faith: Being in silence teaches us God’s voice
In an emergency ward, in another country, I lay on a table awaiting the physician. Lightning flashes of pain shot through my body, weak from days-long inability to take in water and food.
Faith: We find God in our quietest moments
In a fantasy movie, two fallen angels are on a quest. As often happens with quests, violence ensues. They battle it out, angels and humans, blood and wing-feathers flying. Towards the end of the movie, when it’s too late, God wakes from a long nap and wanders in, yawning.
Brian and Adin married and lived in Canada. She was originally from the Middle East, he from the British Isles. Over the years, they had to sort out where their differences came from: from different family backgrounds, personal differences or the different nations they’d belonged to.
Faith: Chiara’s story reveals a new meaning of joy
One day, my brother put a book in my hand. The book, a biography called Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy, appealed to me. I read it into the small hours of that same night.