Pat Gohn
This makes me think… and it makes me slow down and concentrate on the consecration…
It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. The Church Fathers strongly affirmed the faith of the Church in the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion. Thus St….
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… security camera edition
I like how these cameras catch people in the act of doing something GOOD!
Read MoreRemembering my thanksgivings, with a proverbial string around my finger
Ever keep a song on your playlist for 10 years or more? For me, this is one of those… Did you listen to it? Since it came out in 2000, every single time, I’m convicted by that lyric… “You are faithful, I’m forgetful.” It’s so true that I often just breeze by Christ, who is…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about how evangelizers are evangelized.
The New Evangelization reminds us that the very agents of evangelization – you and me –will never achieve that abundant harvest Blessed John XXIII described unless we are willing and eager to first be evangelized themselves. Only those themselves first evangelized can then evangelize. As St. Bernard put it so well, “If you want to…
Read MoreAmong Women 151: The Midlife Madres
This week’s Among Women starts off with a look at what I’m doing lately. I’m happy to announce that my book, Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood is now available for pre-order, and is also the subject of a one-day retreat for women beginning in February 9, 2013 in Folsom, CA. If…
Read MoreHave you checked out the series on the Creed over at The Wine Dark Sea blog?
For the Year of Faith, longtime blogger Melanie Bettinelli, and friend of the Among Women podcast, is hosting a series of guest posts from bloggers around blogdom on the subject of the Creed. Your truly was happily assigned the gig for “The Father Almighty”. Here’s a snippet of my contribution… On the shelf above my…
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… Catholic wives edition
Thanks for a clever jokester and all around new media creative guy Ashley Collins, my gal pals and I ended up in a fun little meme-like photo op. (From left to right: yours truly, Kelly Wahlquist, Maria Johnson, Sarah Reinhard, and the ringleader in getting the photo — Lisa Hendey.)
Read MoreThis makes me think… about finding hope in the desert of pessimism…
Recent decades have seen the advance of a spiritual “desertification”. In the [Second Vatican] Council’s time it was already possible from a few tragic pages of history to know what a life or a world without God looked like, but now we see it every day around us. This void has spread. But it is…
Read MoreAmong Women Podcast #150: The Rosary and Pregnancy — Perfect Together!
This week’s AW is our 150th episode!! (Listen here.) Just how do the rosary and pregnancy go together? Well, they both nurture new life in us, both spiritually and biologically! This week, our “Blessed are They” segment is a departure from our usual discussions about a woman saint, as we open Rosarium Virginis Mariae, the Apostolic Letter…
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