Potomac Community Resources, Inc. (PCR) is an award-winning nonprofit organization that promotes the full inclusion of persons with developmental differences and intellectual disabilities into all aspects of community life. PCR fulfills our mission by providing 35 innovative, therapeutic, social, recreational and respite care programs for…
Author: Dana Robinson
An echo of the future
In St. John’s Gospel, Nathaniel asks Philip if any good can come out of Nazareth. Would his twenty-first century counterpart express the same sentiment about the Big Apple? If so, a contemporary Philip would likely reply with enthusiasm: “Come and see”. We are invited to…
Hope House Ministries
The Mission of Hope House Ministries is founded in the spirit of St. Louis de Montfort, who had a commitment to the poor and the courage to do what no one else had the courage to do. This is our mission: To provide compassionate, comprehensive,…
Diverging mindsets
Ours is a world of proliferating “ologies”. ‘Aetiology’, ‘cognitology’, and ‘onomasiology’ are a few new ones for me. Recently two ‘ologies’ appeared linked in a sentence I read that now unsettles my memory: “Technology defines ontology”. The word ‘technology’ is well understood; not so with…
St. Paul of the Cross Monastery, Church and Retreat Center
In the 1850s, Western Pennsylvania was a vast wilderness that was quickly swelling its numbers through immigration from Europe. Roman Catholics who arrived on our shores received little spiritual shepherding due to a shortage of clergy and vowed religious. Bishop Michael O’Connor had the responsibility…
A Light on the Narragansett
Does anyone else wonder where surnames have gone? Today it seems that no one has, or at least uses, his last name. The practice of addressing a stranger by his first name – regardless of his age or ‘station in life’ (to use a superannuated…
Santuario Della Beata Vergine Di Pompeii (The Shrine of Our Lady Pompeii)
The designation ‘Catholic’ as it relates to the Church was first used by Saint Ignatius of Antioch around the year 110 A.D. in a letter to the nascent Church in Smyrna. By that time the seeds planted by the Apostles and St. Paul had sprouted…
The image of a grass eating bull
On that wondrous night two millennia ago what did it signify, that jubilant cry of the heavenly host when, announcing the birth of the Savior, they sang “Glory to God in highest”? What is glory? What has it to do with God? How does one…
University of Mary
The University of Mary is a private, Christian, Catholic, Benedictine university that welcomes students of all faiths and backgrounds. Infusing Benedictine values throughout the educational experience, Mary offers distinguished, professionally focused academic programs enlivened by the liberal arts, global and civic service, robust internships, and…
The Reign of Error
Either because of or in spite of having so many children the man who raised my siblings and me rarely expressed annoyance. His two pet-peeves which I recall were the abuse of the first person pronoun in that grammatical aberration: “between you and I” and…