The F.U.N. Quotient… kids and guitars, and well, I was amazed!
It’s kids, it’s guitars, it’s choreography! I don’t know if I appreciated their playing more, or their smiles!
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Support a Catholic Speaker Month: Profiling Mary Ann Glendon
This blog post is in support of Catholic Speakers Month. Read all about this project, and the 100 speakers it profiles, on Brandon Vogt’s blog. An inspiring women As a Catholic woman who has attempted to live my faith in the daily tumult that is our society, and even dared to teach the faith, I’ve…
Read MoreIt’s all about the relationship! Or, getting personal with Jesus in the Year of Faith…
The heart of the matter, when it comes to the Year of Faith is not the lines of the Catechism that you memorize, though that’s laudable… or the bible study you will be leading at your parish, though that’s fantastic… or the course your gonna take on Catholicism, though that’s a great commitment… or the…
Read MoreOn foot in Boulder, Colorado… a rosary walk in God’s country…
So I’m in Boulder Colorado… my husband works in this town very often, so I’m riding shotgun, and enjoying working from the hotel room whose windows face the Flat Irons, those jagged mountains you see. Today I went out for a walk to pray my rosary and to prepare to attend Mass at the local…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about the value of good friends — especially in light of eternity.
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness toward each other, but they face in the same direction — toward common projects, interests, goals — above all, toward a common Lord. –C.S. Lewis as found in Albert Wells, Jr., Compiler, Inspiring Quotations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988), 76. image
Read MoreThe F.U.N. Quotient… a little ditty to put a smile on your face
Sometimes the simpler the refrain and the less words a song has… the faster and more deeply I get the message. Enjoy this…
Read MoreAmong Women 145: Opening the Door of Faith
In Among Women 145 we look at Porta Fidei, the “door of faith”, Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Letter announcing the Year of Faith that begins on October 11, 2012. Plus we talk about the new evangelization in terms of being evangelized ourselves first, and then answering the call to evangelize others. This week’s “Blessed are They” segment…
Read MoreVideo: I am “among women” who speak for themselves with respect to the HHS mandate’s curtailing of religious freedom.
I’m happy to add my voice to the women who are opposing the HHS Mandate in America… and you’ll see my face in this video at 2:06-2:09 (lower right side of the screen). Here’s to a more thoughtful, more complete vision of women’s freedom… and to a stronger reception of religious liberty in America than we…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about being deliberate about turning my good intentions into actions.
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. Jesus went about doing good. Our Lady did nothing else…
Read MoreDoes my faith ignite others to believe? — my column at Patheos this week.
The deepest identity of the Catholic Church is that she exists to evangelize… therein lies a challenge for the Catholics of the world. Where are we on the evangelization continuum? Are we closer to “here I am, Lord, send me”? Or closer to “I don’t even know if I can spell the word — evangelization…
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