Tagged: courage

Take a Risk

 By Mary Lou Rosien Featured on CatholicMom.com Note: As the liturgical season of Easter continues until Pentecost, Mary Lou Rosien reminds us that if we have the Spirit within us, we should be unafraid to proclaim the gospel in words and actions. At Easter Mass, our priest, Father Joe, discussed the increasing statistic of those...

New Evangelizers: Waiting with Jesus

New Evangelizers: Waiting with Jesus

Featured on NewEvangelizers.com  What are you waiting for right now? I don’t mean waiting your turn at the doctor’s office or the checkout line or waiting to move forward in a traffic jam. I mean waiting for the next life-changing reprieve or jolt that you are powerless against. You waffle between fear and hope because...

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Featured Favorite: Rejoice Always?

Have you ever been grateful for something negative that happened to you?  Well, maybe not while it’s happening. A friend of mine is a classic doting grandmother. Nothing fills her with joy more than a visit from her little grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away. She talks about nothing else before, during and after...

Partners with God

Partners with God

featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com “For we are God’s co-workers, you are God’s field, God’s building.” (1 Cor. 3:9) We are called by God to take care of his creation. Not just as stewards but as co-creators with God. His work continues with our help, in the fields of our lives. In the spiritual realm, we are...

Singing Through the Pain

Singing Through the Pain

  Featured on CatholicMom.com Last Mother’s Day we went to the 10:00 a.m. Mass at St. Jude’s in Allen, TX,  with my son Andrew and his family. We arrived early while the choir was practicing and sat in the third row behind their two reserved rows. Andrew prepared his French horn and joined the music...

Held Aloft

Held Aloft

by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB Jesus, Lord of Heaven and Earth, I love and adore you. You alone know how unsure I am of my present and my future. You alone, Lord, see the anxiety and darkness that I carry within me. You alone know how confused I am and how often I move...

Set Free

Set Free

by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB I can imagine how the adulterous woman may have felt when Jesus stood by her in the angry mob (John 8:1-11). Her hidden sins were no longer hidden, her emotional scars obvious, and every muscle in her body tensed as she realized her death was imminent. And then she...