by Celeste Behe | May 14, 2021 | The Catholic Storyteller
“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.” – Saint Maximilian Kolbe “Miss LaTassa, during recess today I’d like you to stay in the classroom to work on our May altar.” It was the spring of 1973, and I was...
by Celeste Behe | Feb 18, 2021 | The Catholic Storyteller
“You gleamed and shine, and chase away my blindness. You exhaled odours, and I drew in my breath and do pant after You. I tasted, and do hunger and thirst.” St. Augustine Throughout that winter of 1968, we would notice her at the 10:15am Sunday Mass, nine rows from...
by Celeste Behe | Jan 19, 2021 | The Catholic Storyteller
“There is great gain in godliness with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world; but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:6-8). The year 2020 brought shocking events that I...
by Celeste Behe | Sep 10, 2020 | The Catholic Storyteller
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103) “Do you dare me? Do you dare me to put these pennies into my mouth? And swish them around?” I asked those questions of my fellow third graders at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School....
by Celeste Behe | Aug 21, 2020 | The Catholic Storyteller
“Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky…they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.” -St. Paul of the Cross One summer night in 1965, my older brother Joe was...
by Celeste Behe | Jul 30, 2020 | The Catholic Storyteller
“Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God’s.” -St. Alphonsus de Liguori- This is a good time of year to take a Penny Walk. Put on your walking shoes, then find a shiny penny. All set? Let’s go outdoors! Walk to the nearest corner. Flip...
