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This makes me think… Nothing makes sense unless God wants us in heaven to share his joy.

God created us only so that we could share in His joy. It is were not true God created us so that we could share eternally in His Life, existence would have absolutely no meaning; the world would be absurd. It is only in faith in the intentions of God’s love that the world finds…

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Dear St John Paul II… a thanksgiving for your holy influence in my life

Dear St John Paul II, What a blessing to go to Mass this morning on your feast day! Your life had such a big impact on mine; your holy influence has fueled some of my best prayer practices and my most earnest studies. Long before you instituted World Youth Days, you struck a chord with…

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Among Women 195: Praying With Your Children

Among Women 195 is all about praying with your children. In this new Among Women podcast, my guest, Grace Mazza Urbanski, and I met while we were both attending the World Meeting of Families last month. Grace’s ministry in the Apostleship of Prayer led to her new book, Pray With Me: Seven Simple Ways to Pray with…

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The blog tour buzzing about Lisa Mladinich’s “True Radiance” is underway! Here’s where it will be!

The TRUE RADIANCE BLOG TOUR starts today and many of the bloggers will be giving away a copy of Lisa Mladinich’s book! I’ll be interviewing Lisa for Among Women soon, and we’ll be doing our own giveaway at that time in a couple weeks. In the meantime, you could win a book at one of these fine blogs….or you…

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This Makes Me Think… about what being sold-out for God really looks like — even martyrdom becomes a gift

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way. I plead with you: show me no untimely kindness. Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. I am God’s…

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#Autumn down a country lane in New England Take Two: Sugar Maple Splendor

I found a few more photos in my iPhone…                     Consider this a continuation of yesterday’s post. (There’s even some identification going on regarding the “oreo cows”. File that under “things I never thought I’d discuss in a combox”, but it’s been fun!) Note: Something is…

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#Autumn down a country lane in New England. (Yes, I do live in a postcard.)

The first real frost is forecasted. After that, well, you never know what the colors will be. So late this afternoon as I drove home from my weekly grocery run, the cows called to me and I had to stop and take their picture. The light was coming in at a beautiful angle, and I…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… fun food stuff from our 50 states.

Pun-worthy. Pizza worthy. Ice-cream worthy. … And if you’ve never learned to name the 50 states, this little ditty is ear worm worthy. (You were warned.)

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Perfect! My Badass Book of Saints + the Feast of St Teresa of Avila = A sale!!!!!

  Go to this link to get the sale and use offer code: MARIA I was happy to write the foreword to this book, here’s a little bit from that… St Augustine is often credited with this idea: “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” So, what about us? Do…

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