Lorraine V. Murray News & Columns
Lorraine Murray is a parishioner at St. Thomas More Church in Decatur.
Lorraine V. Murray
“Love always demands self-sacrifice”
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Some people want to obliterate all suffering from life, but Pope Benedict XVI said, “Anyone who really wanted to get rid of suffering would have to get rid of love…because there can be no love without suffering, because it always demands an element of self-sacrifice.”
Previous Columns by Lorraine V. Murray
‘Ask the animals and they will teach you’
The eternal voyage of ‘The Sea Moose’
The mystery of love through a child’s eyes
Meeting Jesus in the garden
Walking through the fire of grief
In the magical land called maybe
Silent lambs, valiant martyrs and heartfelt prayers during Lent
Checking our hearts on Ash Wednesday
A reluctant pilgrim at Lourdes
The bear we have to cross
Small steps toward spiritual sanity in 2019
Revealing our true hearts to God at Christmas
Advent is a time to wake up to miracles
Grateful for friends shining like the sun
A tale of two sisters at the zoo
A moth, a flower, a rabbit—and prayers of praise
The magical kingdom of friendship
Surviving the eye of the spiritual storm
The mysterious link between heaven and earth