by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, A Living Sacrifice of Praise
Take your son, your only son, whom you love…and offer him as a whole burnt sacrifice. These words, spoken to Abraham by God, must have been unbearable for him to hear. This was the child of promise, the son he loved, the sign that God would fulfill his word to make...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, A Living Sacrifice of Praise
“Jesus came to make a way for us to heaven through the veil of His flesh” This quote comes from a passage from Saint Athanasius that has been with me over these past months. Saint Athanasius, reflecting on the structure of the Jerusalem temple, writes...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, A Living Sacrifice of Praise
The Sacred Heart is “the symbol of the love with which Jesus continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings without exception” (CCC, Glossary). The term also refers to the human heart of Jesus, Whose humanity is substantially united to the Word of God, the...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~
“Christian prayer is a covenant relationship between God and man in Christ. It is the action of God and of man, springing forth from both the Holy Spirit and ourselves, wholly directed to the Father, in union with the human will of the Son of God made man…prayer is...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, A Living Sacrifice of Praise
Some years ago, when I was doing my training as a nurse practitioner, I worked with a surgeon. During a laparoscopic procedure inside a patient’s abdomen, the surgeon was showing me different structures and helping to orient me to what we were looking at by way of a...
