A Mary Moment Monday post Ah, Lent is over. We leave the desert for the feast. And I find myself wondering, yet again, what the point of it all really is. Chocolate bunnies and shreds of colored grass? Fancy new shoes and curled hair? Egg hunts and bouquets? It’s all too easy to get jaded [...]
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In general, I would want to witness to my daughter that it is worthwhile to “lay down one’s life” for others in imitation of Christ. I would hope she would see from my own example that one does not need to be perfect to be a wife and a mother. Nor need…
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• Benedict XVI to travel to Milan in June for world meeting of families
• The indispensable role of the family in transmitting the faith
• Revitalizing Catholic tradition in Latin America
• Vatican secret archives on display
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Last week I had the distinct privelege of attending a Cirque du Soleil performance while in Florida. This is the second of their live shows that I have seen, and while they were both very different from one another, I was just as entranced. The first, …
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Part 3 of this series reflects upon lectures 8 thru 13 of John Paul II’s Catechesis of Human Love. Topics include Adam is Alone, The Communion of Persons, The Theology of Sex, Man Clings to His Wife, and Shame.
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The Theology of the Body &…
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Theology of the Body (the Catechesis of Human Love) is the topic of a series of 129 lectures given by Pope John Paul II during his Wednesday audiences in the Pope Paul VI Hall between September 1979 and November 1984. It was the first major teaching of…
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Seems everyone’s quoting Tebow to insult or praise. I must be stuck with the fever: ”This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now. Everybody believe and we went out there and achieved it because our faith and ou…
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Lisa’s promoting her book, A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, which you already know that I love. I asked her to write something extra about a saint for us (an author’s work is never done, y’all, and I’m proud to help her keep her writing credentials)…
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Catholics have this great thing about sacrifice and suffering. We like it. Perhaps that’s a little misleading. I think I can rightly say we appreciate it. You see, when Jesus chose to die on a Cross for us, to suffer, He gave … Keep reading
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I long for your presenceTo save me from this painIt’s mostly self inflictedA hidden desire for selfish gainIn Your presence I find freedomYet sometimes I feel sinBecause Your light it shines so brightlyYou make me whole againBut I can’t stay here forev…
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My column today, A Word in Season, recognizes Pope Benedict’s arrival at World Youth Day (WYD) today, and reminisces about Blessed John Paul II’s exuberant heart for youth in the pre-WYD days.In everything JPII and BXVI have preached and written for WY…
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The intimacy between Jesus and Mary cannot be underestimated, and Blessed John Paul’s meditation on Mary’s “eucharistic” faith is one worth pondering. My latest over at Patheos is a second look at some highlights from the late pontiff’s last encyclical…
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Take a short tour of the last encyclical that we received from Pope John Paul II on the Eucharist, at my column this week at the Catholic Portal at Patheos… In the encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Blessed John Paul II sought to reki…
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Today as I drove into work I was listening to NPR’s conversation about the demise of Osama Bin Laden. This segued into a discussion of the Arab Spring as they were calling it: a new generation making strides towards democracy, a fragile yet ardent effo…
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A Mary Moment Monday post My glimpse of what a truly special guy John Paul II was came while my husband and I were sitting in the living room just a few nights ago. My husband, who’s of the strong and silent type about pretty much everything, had a strange look on his face as [...]
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Okay, this is one of my favorite quotes of all time from John Paul II. I figured one more couldn’t hurt!Jesus does not in fact merely speak “in the name of God” like the Prophets, but he is God himself speaking in his Eternal Word made flesh. Here we t…
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