Category: Friends
CWG: Finding Patience is too good not to share
Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.org Adventures of Faith, Hope, and Charity: Finding Patience by Virginia Lieto has all the elements familiar to most children: families in transition, siblings, new classmates, loneliness and puppies! For children, waiting for anything seems endless! Faith Livingstone, age eight, would agree, having just moved to a new town and about to enter a...
Perseverance = prayer buddies, pep talks and defeating perfectionism
The keynote speaker, Pat Gohn, wowed us with her talk on Perseverance at the Catholic Writers Conference (CWG) Live. Whether or not you are a writer, you can apply her “Prayer and Practices of Writers and Artists” to your calling in life. That’s because “art and faith (our work and faith) are not compartmentalized –...
Got Joy? Latest JOYAlive posts 8-14-15
Pope Francis: Celebrations are the invention of God – Pope Francis begins series on three facets of family life: celebration, work and prayer contrasting obsession with work with celebration of the Eucharist CWG Live: Were you there? Did you feel the love? – Lots of love and hugs at the Catholic Writers Conference Live and...
CWGLive: Were you there? Did you feel the love?
Who were all these people at the CWG Live Conference? Here’s who: My roommate, Deanna Klingel. We go back three years when her hotel reservation was wrong and she spent the first night with me. Last year during the conference we experienced an unforgettable God-moment, which she shared on her blog here. EWTN Priests Fr....
Friar’s Corner: What a friend we have in Jesus
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-15; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 During these Lenten Sundays we have been looking at the Old Testament covenants between God and various key figures of his chosen people like Noah, Abraham, Moses and King David. We have been living in the final covenant Jesus made for us with his Father for...
Telling your Faith Story
Free download for subscribers! Several years ago, as I was on my way into St. Patrick’s Church, a man approached me. His eyes looked straight into mine, searching for something. Perhaps directions to some place in the neighborhood? Then he inquired, “Let me ask you something. Why do you go to church?” Spontaneously, I answered,...