The #GraceOfYes + the feminine genius = a vocation story for a Daughter of St Paul (2min video)
Let your heart be moved by this two minute witness.
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#GraceOfYESDay… who inspires me? Intercessors, Helpers, Missionaries, Caregivers, Mercy-bearers
In honor of the”Grace of YES” day… (inspired by Lisa Hendey’s book, The Grace of Yes): The people who inspire me with their yes include … Intercessors: the men and women who silently, and particularly, intercede for others with their hidden prayers. I know I have been the grateful recipient of many prayers lifted to…
Read MoreFrancis on Complimentarity, Marriage, and Family Life #Humanum
Here is a portion of the text of Pope Francis’ greetings to the Humanum participants: You must admit that “complementarity” does not roll lightly off the tongue! Yet it is a word into which many meanings are compressed. It refers to situations where one of two things adds to, completes, or fulfills a lack in…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about the divine face, the incarnation…
The Divine Image by William Blake (1757-1827) To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has…
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I write for Catholic Digest; Make this your easiest-to-give Christmas present…
For a few years now, I’ve been privileged to be a columnist in the Catholic Digest. My space is “From the Catechism”. (I always thought it should be called “The Pat in the Cat” — but I’m grateful to my editor, not only for the work each month, but for her good taste in not…
Read MoreGarth Brooks is singing about “Mom”. (*Kleenex alert*)
One for the mothers of children… Lyrics here.
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… amazing astronomy, or that’s a God thing…
When I was kid I had a telescope and would go out in the backyard and look at the craters of the moon. It was the Space Age and many from my generation dreamed about working for NASA: I was one of those children whose 1969 summer was punctuated by Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk….
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Review: “The Grace of Yes” by Lisa Hendey is about Answering God’s Action in Our Lives
Lisa Hendey has a lot to say about the Good Stuff — the sunny side of life — about God, graces, and generous living. Yet it does not come from Thinking Positive or a Pollyanna’s World View. No, this goodness flows from a life of gratitude lived in touch with her core Catholic belief in blessings…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about heaven in this month of holy souls…
There by Mary Coleridge There, in that other world, what waits for me? What shall I find after that other birth? No stormy, tossing, foaming, smiling sea, But a new earth. No sun to mark the changing of the days, No slow, soft falling of the alternate night, No moon, no star, no light upon…
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… viva la differénce
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