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On the Years of Gestation on Earth
How do we come to know God in a world that considers Him a construct of man rather than the Creator of mankind? How do we come to really know this person we are called to love, Jesus? And how are we...
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How To Do Good on the Internet
The internet is the oddest of places. Even within limited settings as say, religious forums, you can go to a favorite haunt and discover after a few moments that an entirely different impression of...
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Holy Spirit Stories: The Smile That Made a Family
One of my favorite stories about my first son, is how he saved a life of a person he\’s never really known. Being lonely and stuck at home and not coping with it very well that first year as a mom, I...
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The Very Necessariness of Everyone
It was a cold afternoon, but I\’d agreed to a play date at the park and so I trundled the four littles into the van for what I hoped would be a bit of fun. The playground had a fenced-in area that...
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The Year of Faith is Almost Over
Did you grow closer to God? Start a new prayer regimen? Become more familiar with the Catechism? Peruse the life of a favorite saint or discover the writings of one of the Doctors other than David...
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Forever Singing
A weekly task in this household involves a trip to the dry cleaner. Because this chore falls to me and has for over a decade, I\’ve come to know the people who work at the store if not on a first time...
View ArticleA Stay-At-Home-Mom’s Lament: Who’s Evangelized?
On November 26, 2013, I uttered words that still echo in my mind, words which felt true even if everything that followed refuted that feeling. I said, “I don’t want to be a stay at home mom anymore.” I...
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Making the Church Beautiful Starts At Home
It began because I\’d put off housecleaning. (It\’s bad for me spiritually to do this because then I get vexed by time constraints in addition to mess). I went to my two daughter\’s room and found a...
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Human. Human. Human.
Facebook brings us many people talking about and linking to many things, not all of them just, kind, or beautiful. Today, my feed had lots of anxious angry frustrated and irritated posts. I suppose I...
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The Pro-choice Mantra is “Every Child, a Wanted Child.”
Man, that implies so much. That those who survive the Rubicon of the womb, they were desired,while those who did not, were not. Except it isn’t true. If you look at this world, there are plenty of...
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Prelude to Love
I have one teen-aged daughter who would love to be a cynic, but is wise enough to know she shouldn\’t be. Occasionally though, she has to scratch that skeptic\’s itch and it is usually when she comes...
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Life in the Fasting Lane
Car rides are hard with ten children. There is almost always a mess. There is almost always a disagreement about seating arrangements, and fights in the back row of the 12 passenger van cannot be...
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We Cannot Have Dissent!
In reading the various news bits over the past few weeks, I noticed a trend — an assertion born of certitude and used to justify injustice, cloaked in the trappings of open mindedness. It is as Pope...
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