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Featured in NewEvangelizers.com I wish my father had read The Healing Power of a Father’s Blessing by Linda Schubert. He parented his three daughters from a distance, following the familiar pattern of how he was raised. Oh, Daddy was in town, working six days a week at the five-and-dime stores he managed in towns around...
Transform your marriage with ‘Intimate Graces' – Do you know that practicing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy can transform your marriage? Nancy Ward reviews Intimate Graces by Teresa Tomeo and Dominick Pastore Show up and let God love you – featured on CatholicMom.com – During the funeral I was vulnerable enough to let...
Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-11; John 20:19-23; John 14:15-16, 23b-26 Pentecost is the completion of the Easter celebrations. Jesus had finished his work of personally showing us God’s love and dying to take away our sins. Our Father showed us that he accepted the sacrifice of Jesus by raising him...
by Fr. Bob Hilz Isaiah 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24); Philippians 2:6-11; Luke 23:1-49 The Liturgy is so rushed and full of meaning. We remember Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry through the Golden Gate into God’s temple in Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday. Its significance is often overlooked because of the sad reading of the...
Two weeks of joy from JOYAlive.net Held Aloft by Margaret Rose Realy – I trust in you, Jesus, to carry me aloft when I feel I am falling too fast. Amen Sharing Your Faith Story now available on DVD – The most effective way to evangelize? Personal witness. #SharingYOURFaithStory DVD Friar’s Corner: Let us turn...
Featured Favorite: Cultivating God's Garden through Lent– Just in time for Lent, I interviewed Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB, author of Lenten devotions, Cultivating God’s Garden through Lent, as we begin series for Lent. Writers! Journal your faith story – Keeping a spiritual journal is crucial in sharing your faith story effectively. Will you...
Featured on New Evangelizers Two funerals of close friends of more than 40 years were not what I planned to do in a busier-than-usual week. But funerals are never convenient; we go with the flow. Both funerals were at the same church across town with the same spectacular music ministry from our covenant community. I...