The joy of conversion, Christian community, and the Catholic faith
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 18, 12-14 Have you ever rebelled interiorly and became the sheep that wandered away from the Shepherd? The skeptic that sits through the homily fuming inwardly, “No one’s gonna tell me what to do!” all the while trying not to scowl? I slid into an extended indolence. I dragged my family and...
By Lisa Nicholas In my parish church, we have a set of hand-carved Stations of the Cross that we purchased from Taiwan thirty years ago. In those days we couldn’t afford much, so parishioners were encouraged to “buy” one station. I chose to pay for the Fifth Station, where Simon of Cyrene is compelled to...
Featured on Zenit.org that picked it up from CatholicWritersGuild.com Nancy Ward is interviewed by Dave Palmer, GRN radio, at Sacred Heart Books, Dallas, on ways to share our faith in the Year of Mercy. (Photo by Phil Ward) In this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis encourages us to show God’s mercy through our witness....
Expectant faith yearns for the Holy Spirit – From earth we yearn for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. From heaven he meets us and gives us himself, his own life. Expectant faith yearns for the Holy Spirit Pentecost People – Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com – The fire of the Holy Spirit enflames us with lov...
Featured on NewEvangelizers.com In this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis encourages us to show God’s mercy through our witness. The Holy Father called this Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy to direct our attention and actions “on mercy so that we may become a more effective sign of the Father’s actions in our lives . . ....
“Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence.” (1 Peter 3:15,16) When we are baptized we are commissioned as evangelists. We grow into this role with God’s grace through the sacraments, prayer, blessings and crisis that strengthen us....
Part 1 – Always be ready to evangelize Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.org As a sidebar to my presentation of “Sharing Your Faith Story as a Writer” for the March 4-6 Catholic Writers Conference Online, I stress the value of preparing to evangelize by maintaining a spiritual journal. Writers keep a journal to capture inspirations, observations, story...