St Teresa of Avila

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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#Fast Friday in Lent … mid-Lent, midlife…

Here we are, approaching mid-Lent! I was encouraging my bible study students this week that it is never too late to make a good Lent. Lots of folks have a fast start. They get all excited to maintain the practices of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer and then forget, or can’t maintain the habit, or peter…

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Venerating the Saints: Relics and Real Life (a photo essay)

As the month of all saints and all souls continues, I thought I’d share some cool photos of relics from some of my travels in recent months. Relics, honored in the Catholic Church, are the bodies of the saints or objects connected with them or with Our Lord. God has often shown His approval of…

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