When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Saturday, December 21, 2013

A Meditation on St. Ambrose's Commentary on the Visitation

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Have I ever mentioned that I love Advent? And have I ever mentioned how thrilling it can be to pray and feel your life standing in God's...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

God's Answer to my "How To" Question

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I wish I had a word for this mood surrounding me of late. I think of it as a sort of impotent intensity. I feel this great driving urge with...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

I Used to Hate Christmas

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I was just scrolling through Facebook posts recently when suddenly I remembered: I used to hate Christmas. It's true. I did. I was u...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Prophets, Prophets Everywhere

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I have prophets on the brain of late. Those Advent Mass readings , right? Even if I've heard the same thing every year in the past, I...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

John the Baptist and The Sign

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Sometimes, a picture is just worth a thousand words: The Mass readings of today held many layers of personal meaning for me. But they a...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Prophecy, Reality, and the Done Deal

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Under the category: Scriptures that Blow me Away I was listening to the Seraphic Fire recording of Handel's Messiah today. Any average ...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Feeling Guilty Because Your Advent is Crazy-Hectic?

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Advent has grown on me every year. There is always something so heart-throbbingly beautiful about it to me; potent but elusive. One minute t...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Trust is the Beginning

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As I was working with my daughter on her math lesson the other day, she taught me about a stumbling block on a spiritual level that I've...
Friday, November 29, 2013

The Power of Managing a Household Well

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There have been a few themes clunking around in my head like stuff you keep in your trunk and keep telling yourself, every time you take a s...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

Edith Stein, and What's New

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Last week I rather unexpectedly ended up spending a lot of solitary time in my parish hall, which is immediately connected to the church pro...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith?

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Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a cer...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Like a Fire In My Soul

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There have been many times I've come to my blog wishing I could effectively scream with a keyboard or maybe write in tongues so that I c...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Just Shoot Me

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I have learned so much in the last week that, once again, I am just about ready to pop. Back in my 20s I went through several years where ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

How Parishes Can Alienate the Faithful

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This week I was involved in a conversation in a closed discussion group among Catholic women (across the country) that I found so enlighteni...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Exposing Lies

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Something that has been impressed on me significantly of late is how urgent is the need to combat lies. And I'm talking about the kind o...