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Building on Lent: An Examen Prayer for the Easter Season
Rachel Forton - Apr 13, 2022
It does not make sense to simply abandon whatever practices helped us approach the Lord with less of a barrier between Him and ourselves during Lent. I propose an Easter Examen to reflect on your Lenten practices and adapt them to the Easter season, so that the graces received in Lent will continue to bless you and deepen your relationship with God. -
Bridge of Meditation Into His Heart
Jeannie Ewing - Apr 7, 2022
It is when our nothingness encounters God’s perfection that we are truly transformed. God chooses to demonstrate His power when we choose to humble ourselves to the extreme and allow Him to do whatever He wishes. Once this occurs, we find ourselves dissolve into Him, so that His will finally, at long last, becomes ours, too. -
3 Practical Methods for Maintaining Peace in Everyday Life
Sara and Justin Kraft - Apr 5, 2022
Sara and Justin Kraft discuss the virtue of Serenity as an outflow of the virtue of faith. Trusting in God, our Good Father, we know that "all things work for good for those who love God" (Romans 8:28). They provide us 3 practical ways to cultivate peace in our everyday lives. -
Halfway There: Reclaiming Lent If You’ve Lost Your Way
John Kubasak - Mar 30, 2022
If your Lent has started and misfired in any way, don’t despair. There is still time to reset your Lent and finish strong. Here are a handful of suggestions for moving forward to Easter. -
Mary’s Fiat: How To Celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation
John Kubasak - Mar 24, 2022
On this feast day, spend some time with Our Lord to reflect on this great mystery—the mystery that encapsulates salvation history in Our Lady’s womb. -
The Spirituality of Spring
Jeannie Ewing - Mar 23, 2022
If I wish to “bear fruit that will remain,” to be faithful and never falter from my place on God’s great grapevine, I must take heed from the lessons of nature that bestow on me a quiet beauty and a powerful lesson. I am not unlike the creatures and plants, in the sense that I, too, cycle through seasons of desolation and wait for seasons of growth and abundance. -
How to Live a Life of Constant Conversion
Mackenzie Worthing - Mar 17, 2022
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 4:17). But what does this repentance really mean? It involves a recognition and confession of sin, a change of the interior disposition from sin and darkness to truth and light, and the abandonment of sin to begin a new way of life. -
Fasting & Feasting: How to Celebrate Solemnities During Lent
Sara and Justin Kraft - Mar 15, 2022
Lent can seem long and dreary. However, the Church does not want us to experience it in this way and to this end offers us the opportunity to celebrate two great feasts in the midst of this penitential season. The Solemnity of St. Joseph (March 19) and the Solemnity of the Annunciation (March 25) stand as great celebrations and offer an oasis in the midst of Lent. -
How To View Suffering As A Gift: Reflections on the Book of Job
Fr. Mike Liledahl - Mar 10, 2022
Job is often looked at for inspiration when we have suffering in our lives. How Job was able to maintain his praise of God throughout his suffering can help us when suffering will inevitably occur in our lives, because none of us are immune from suffering. -
What Are the 4 Parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
John Kubasak - Mar 8, 2022
We are so blessed as Catholics to have a resource like the Catechism of Catholic Church. It’s a resource for clergy, laity, teachers, and anyone who wants to know what the Church believes. Catholicism is an intelligible faith that can satisfy even the most demanding of intellects and hearts. -
6 Ways to Prepare Children for Lent
Jeannie Ewing - Feb 28, 2022
Modern families struggle to find time to add anything into their schedules. I think the preparation for Lent should center around interior disposition rather than external behaviors. Even if you can incorporate one or two ways to grow in holiness as a family this Lenten season, it will bear fruit. Give God your meager offering, and He will multiply the graces you receive. -
Living the Graces of Matrimony
Rachel Forton - Feb 15, 2022
Grace grows as you draw from it. It is a well that never empties. The more you rely upon grace, the more you receive. Rachel Forton reflects on the graces that support and flow from the sacrament of marriage. -
St. Scholastica As a Sibling
Josh Florence - Feb 10, 2022
The holy "siblingship" between St. Scholastica and St. Benedict offer insight into the gift of siblings. They led each other to holiness of life and this is something that can be a model for us and our siblings. Even for those who may not have siblings we have adopted brothers and sisters in Christ to call us to greater holiness. We must remember that The Blood of Christ runs deep in his adopted children and unites us. -
A Catholic Approach to St. Valentine’s Day
Sara and Justin Kraft - Feb 8, 2022
I offer that the Christian approach is to spend all our strength pursuing worthwhile actions in support of our loved ones. If this is done well, we will no doubt be blessed with healthy and vibrant relationships. Therefore, I encourage all lovers to fill the day with selfless acts for it is from selfless acts that true love is made. -
Living Joy in Winter
Jeannie Ewing - Feb 2, 2022
Jeannie Ewing reflects on how to live the fruit of joy during seasons of desolation, the winters of our lives.
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- 1I Was A Pilgrim In History
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I Was A Pilgrim In History
The book tells of the journey of the Magi from Egypt where they first witnessed a vision of the birth of the child Messiah. The story follows the Magi to their meeting with Herod and finding the Holy Family. It then follows the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt and their return trip to Nazareth. The story explores some new details of Jesus’ childhood and how His identity was kept secret. The story continues to the time of the Crucifixion of Jesus, and it ends with the Blessed Mother completing the first Stations of the Cross.
An Introduction to the Life and Writings of Cora Evans
An Introduction to the Life and Writings of Cora Evans: Wife, Mother, and Mystic is a personal journal written by one of her best friend, Christian Brother, Edward Behan. Behan shares his knowledge of Cora's life and writings, of her thoughts and insights, which unfolded over six years of inspiring friendship. This book sheds much light on Cora and her relationship with our Lord.
The Refugee from Heaven
The Refugee from Heaven recounts the life of Jesus Christ as an eyewitness, beginning with the first meeting between Jesus and Peter, on the shores of Mount Carmel Bay. With vivid detail and dialogue, this unique account breathes new life into well-known figures of the Gospels.
A Time to Laugh and a Time to Weep
NOW AVAILABLE! A Time to Laugh and A Time to Weep is a prayerful journey for healing, forgiveness, charity, kindness, and courage that traverses the highs and lows of motherhood and faith in light of Cora Evans’ writings. Travel alongside Cora Evans and Jeannie Ewing — one a woman of the early twentieth century, another a modern Catholic living in the frenzied, post-modern Information Age — and realize that truth, beauty, and wisdom exist outside of time.
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