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Puzzle Pieces (DollarPhotoClub.com)

Countercultural / Family / Holidays / Nancy Ward / Prayer

Featured Favorite: Unique Puzzle Pieces

You and your husband are planning a vacation for your family.  As a wife and mother, you visualize a resort where you can leave the cleaning and cooking to someone else and relax by the pool. Your husband wants to go camping. In our Marriage Enrichment study, “A Marriage Made in Heaven,” we learned about...

Catholic for Ten Years by Sarah Reinhard

Evangelization / Family / Identity / People / Prayer

Catholic for Ten Years by Sarah Reinhard

“I don’t have to do this. No one can make me.” That attitude didn’t stop me. It didn’t keep me from being baptized and confirmed at the Easter Vigil ten years ago. And that, I believe, is because of the grace of God. For me–-and for most of us, I think, if we’re honest-–my conversion...