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CatholicMom: Summer Project: Blessed by Less

Books / Family / Lent / Quotes

CatholicMom: Summer Project: Blessed by Less

Summer gives us some flexibility to take on projects that can mirror those of Lent, or those we wish we had done for Lent. For Susan Vogt, author of Blessed by Less, a Lenten challenge became an addiction. Her forty bags for forty days campaign on her blog encouraged others to join her in giving...

The Glass of Milk

Healing / Hospitality / Identity / Nancy Ward

The Glass of Milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the...

Bishop Ricken Offers ‘10 Ways Catholics Can Live The Year Of Faith’

Catechism / Evangelization / Prayer / Sacraments / Scriptures / Uncategorized

Bishop Ricken Offers ‘10 Ways Catholics Can Live The Year Of Faith’

  September 24, 2012 WASHINGTON—To honor the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI has announced a Year of Faith, starting October 11 and ending November 24, 2013. The goal is to strengthen the faith of Catholics and draw the world...