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Featured on NewEvangelizers.com Since the days of the Amazing Grace book series, Patti Maguire Armstrong, author of Holy Hacks: Everyday Ways to Live Your Faith and Get to Heaven, has been one of my favorite authors. I admire her wisdom, casual style and thorough presentation. I recognize that much of that comes from her journalism background and much...
Featured on NewEvangelizers.com Around the Year with the von Trapp Family by Maria Augusta von Trapp is surprisingly upbeat and joyful, especially when we recall that The Sound of Music ends with the von Trapp troupe fleeing their beloved Austria. The 1965 American musical drama ends by highlighting the danger the family averted by escaping with only what they wore — and what...
Featured on NewEvanggelizers.com My journal entry continues describing one Sunday in 1988 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Last month I wrote about Mass in Galilee, celebrated in Aramaic and Arabic, the closest language to that which Jesus spoke. After Mass at St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Ibillin with Fr. Chacour, our...
Featured on New Evangelizers. com As a convert, close spiritual relationships with my Catholic sisters-in-the-Lord are among God’s most treasured and healing gifts. One Catholic sister-in-the-Lord, is dying of brain cancer. She’s the Grateful-for-Adversity Grandmother I wrote about last year. I went to visit her across town when she first was diagnosed and, after many...
Today’s Good News – published in The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion – Good News: You can allow God to be God, living in your heart and working through you wherever you are, or you can do the sidestep dance and be miserable. Lent: You Are in Me – In You Are in Me, Amy Welborn writes, There’s really no...
Featured on NewEvangelizers.com Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. (Luke 12:35) Advent reminds us to stay ready to serve our Master when he comes. Do you feel ready...
St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone – Book review featured on CatholicWritersGuild.org. “St. Thomas is the greatest doctor of the Church,” author Dave Palmer said, “Young children can be taught his basic philosophy, as I do with my 11- and 7-year olds.” Openness to God’s Will is theme of Catholic Writers LIVE – 2016 Catholic Writers Conference...