A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17: 22 I saw this short film a few years back. Someone I love needs to know this now. Maybe you do, too.
Read MoreSummertime = down time for many people. If you enjoy having a summer reading list, consider upping your time spent reading God’s Word — the Bible! Here’s a few podcasts, drawn from my archives at Among Women, that might inspire you along the way. AW 92: The Bible and You – listen as Among Women listeners…
Read MoreYou need to know what you believe. You need to know your faith with that same precision with which an IT specialist knows the inner workings of a computer. You need to understand it like a good musician knows the piece he is playing. Yes, you need to be more deeply rooted in the faith…
Read MoreMoms will love this: A song parody à la “Frozen”… And there’s this one… (Viewer caution: a single use of a swear word, the ‘s’ word.) This is a comedy sketch from a comedian Dad talking about the upside-down-ness of doing simple things with children. Yes, to quote the previous video, he definitely needs…
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I may be a bit scarce around these parts and over at Facebook and Twitter as I go off the grid to take some coursework in spiritual direction. There. I said it. Putting it out there. It is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to test…
Read MoreEvery priest was once a mother and father’s little boy. Every priest is born into a family. The family, most often, has great impact on the life of a priest and his receptivity to God’s call in his life. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has a wonderful new video that shares this idea very well. There…
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Love by George Herbert (1593-1633) Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked anything. ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here’:…
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Pope Francis is calling for peace in the Middle East, and especially in the Holy Lands, by inviting Israeli and Palestinians to pray together with him at the Vatican. And how marvelous that it is taking place on Pentecost! Have you seen the Scripture readings that the global church will be proclaiming and praying over…
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2014 brings a decision from SQPN to take a year off from hosting the conference and look toward 2015. From SQPN’s press release: The next Catholic New Media Conference will be held in the spring of 2015, ten years after Catholic podcasting took off around the events of the death of Saint John Paul II…
Read MoreA family favorite: Michael W. Smith with a song from his new album “Sovereign”
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Here it’s coffee and conversation, and where the faith-sharing is often a friendly mix of catechesis and cannoli. It’s a place where we can catch up…
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