Oh, Those Joyful Dominicans!

There are days when it is difficult to be joyful, when what we or some of our loved ones are asked to carry seems too heavy, when we are mistreated by those we love and whom we thought loved us, when we are asked to do or bear what appears to be obscenely unfair, unjust or impossible, or when it feels like God has abandoned us.

Don't let today be one of those days:


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  1. Sara Harvey-CraigJune 5, 2014 at 3:33 PM

    Thanks for that. I have forwarded the link to my lay Dominican fraternity in Oxford.

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