Tagged: healing

CWG: Are you waiting with Jesus?

Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com What are you waiting for right now? I don’t mean waiting your turn at the doctor’s office or the checkout lineor waiting to move forward in a traffic jam. I mean waiting for the next life-changing reprieve or jolt that you are powerless against. You waffle between fear and hope because you...

Clones by Mariyas (Wikimedia commons)

Classic Favorite: God doesn’t create clones

I grew up in the shadow of my sister who was 18 months older than me. I followed her around, copying her every preference and obeying her every request. She convinced me that her likes and dislikes, friends and fashions were the best and only choices possible for me.  When she was 16, she got...

DCCW Luncheon: ‘Why Keep a Spiritual Journal?’

DCCW Luncheon: ‘Why Keep a Spiritual Journal?’

The Dallas Deanery Council of Catholic Women Quarterly Luncheon Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Speaker:  NANCY WARD Sharing Your Faith Story Ministry Topic: Why Keep a Spiritual Journal? St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church 1404 Old Gate Lane Dallas, Texas 75218 Grand Salon Room   Please make $10 check payable to:  St. Bernard Altar Guild Mail Reservation to...

Answered: Five questions on how to share your faith

Answered: Five questions on how to share your faith

In Five Ways to Share Your Faith, I encouraged you to always be ready to evangelize through your personal witness.   Remember that every baptized Christian is commissioned to be an evangelist. The most effective way we can evangelize is by sharing our unique story — the faith story only we can tell. What about...

Friar’s Corner: Jesus wanted leadership focused on serving others

Friar’s Corner: Jesus wanted leadership focused on serving others

Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-5, 6-8; James 3:16 to 4:3; Mark 9:30-37 Dear Holy Spirit, please fill us with our wisdom. As I stated with Mark’s gospel section last week, we are at a turning point. Jesus has finished his “glorious” ministry of healing countless numbers of people, feeding thousands and having leftovers and teaching....

Friar’s Corner: Jesus’ love continues to heal those who come to him

Friar’s Corner: Jesus’ love continues to heal those who come to him

Isaiah 35:4-7a; Ps 146:7-10; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 (He has made the deaf hear and the dumb speak.) I am praying that all of you have a safe and wonderful and refreshing “Labor Day weekend.” When we look at the first reading and gospel, the theme is obviously healing. If we think about the many...