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Featured Favorite: Why I Remain Catholic

The Anchoress Elizabeth Scalia posed the question on her Patheos blog, “Why do I remain Catholic?” to Catholic writers and all media persons in this post. #WhyRemainCatholic is going wild. This conversation is timely for me, for I’ve begun writing and speaking about my faith story. I’m reliving some key moments such as when I...

Edging God Out?

Edging God Out?

 Featured on NewEvangelizers.com Are you excited about Lent this year? Making long lists of sacrifices, prayers and goals? Or do you hesitate to take on a new discipline to add to your packed schedule? When we take on a new goal to improve our life we meet internal resistance. Perhaps the new project is a...

Got Joy? Latest JOYAlive.net posts 1-6-17

Got Joy? Latest JOYAlive.net posts 1-6-17

A reason, a season, a lifetime – featured on NewEvangelizers.com – People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. What new and old relationships need a special place in your life this season? CatholicMom: True Radiance, wisdom for a season of life – featured on CatholicMom.com – In True Radiance,...

A reason, a season, a lifetime

A reason, a season, a lifetime

Featured in NewEvangelizers.com No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (Jn 15:13) I love the saying, “People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” As the Christmas season gives way to Valentine’s Day and Lent approaches, how do we relate to our...

A Catholic Sister

A Catholic Sister

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. A dear friend, a 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...

The Feet Washing: How God gave his mercy through me

Featured on CatholicMom.com In How God’s mercy gives us second chances, I wrote how reviewing my journals helps me recognize my mistakes and how God’s mercy works in healing my past. A lot of my sinful behavior was directed toward my older sister—and with good reason! But are those reasons still valid? We are no...

CMom: Resurrection and self-awareness

CMom: Resurrection and self-awareness

Featured on CatholicMom.com “In the mystery of the Resurrection lies the summit and the highest intensity of our Christian self-awareness, and therefore that of my new awareness of myself of the way in which I look at all people and all things,” writes Msgr. Luigi Giussani. The power of the Resurrection gives us a new...