Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Send a crocus to someone from whom you are estranged. This simple gesture will both brighten their day and mend broken hearts. It doesn't matter whose fault it was; send the flower and see how paths will mend. This time of year, crocuses are in season, I believe. Show someone that you care about the relationship. Saint of the Day Thursday, February 21, 2013 St. Peter Damian (1007-1072) Maybe because he was orphaned and had been treated shabbily by one of his brothers, Peter Damian was very good to the poor. It was the ordinary thing for him to have a poor person or two with him at table and he liked to minister personally to their needs. Peter escaped poverty and the neglect of his own brother when his other brother, who was archpriest of Ravenna, took him under his wing. His brother sent him to good schools and Peter became a professor. Already in those days Peter was very strict with himself. He wore a hair shirt under his clothes, fasted rigorously a...