“The Rosary prepares you to pray.”
Wait, whaaat?!
I heard these words at a First Saturday talk about prayer. They stopped me in my tracks.
I always thought the Rosary WAS prayer (and a pretty good one, too!)
The priest who spoke these words continued to explain, and when I took the time to reflect deeper – it made total sense.
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How to fight the influences of evil threatening to corrupt our children through the practice of spiritual adoption.
The cool water swirled around my ankles as I stood at the edge of the lake, toes buried in the wet sand, watching my four children splash in the shallows.
I couldn’t help but overhear snippets of conversations of a group of children – around 8 or 9 years old – as they played a game of pretend a little farther out in the water.
It was the saddest pretend play I’ve ever heard.
There was a mom and a dad, and the rest of the kids seemed to be their children.
Their pretend conversations went like this:
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We play Catholic Trivia over on Instagram each month. These are the questions and answers to this month’s #4thFridayTrivia game.
My eczema was flaring up again.
The skin on my fingertips was raw and open. It itched and burned and oozed. Strangers were afraid to shake my hand.
It was hard to take care of my family. I couldn’t open jars or tie shoes or even change my baby’s diaper. Washing my hair made me cry.
The constant pain was exhausting.
One day my mom, with her true mother’s heart, said to me, “I wish I could take this pain away from you.”
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The Saints will find you when you’re not really looking for them.
They will make a big difference in your life without you even realizing it.
They will surprise you with the timeliness of their intercession.
Today, I want to share a few stories about the Saints and their influence in my lives. These are a few of my friends, the Saints.
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I have a new friend who is a Byzantine Catholic.
And I know, I’m butchering the terminology from line one, but I’m just figuring this whole Catholic rites thing out so gimme a break!
Anyways, I went to Mass on a recent Saturday and noticed it was the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.
That Solemnity isn’t a Holy Day of Obligation for me (Latin Rite) but I happened to know (don’t ask me how) that it was a Holy Day of Obligation for my Byzantine friend.
So I got to wondering how she would fulfill her Holy Day of Obligation, since her Byzantine church is kinda far away.
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We play Catholic Trivia over on Instagram each month. These are the questions and answers to this month’s #4thFridayTrivia game.
It’s that season.
Weddings, anniversaries, love is in the air.
Just how much exactly do you know about Catholic marriage?
See if you can answer these 10 Catholic Trivia questions to find out just how marriage-savvy you are.
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#MyMassTakeaway for June 23, 2019, Corpus Christi. Cover photo by For the Taking Photography.
Do you have one of those phrases that pumps you up every time you hear it? I do.
In the liturgy of baptism, after the parents profess the baptismal vows, the priest prays, “This is our faith. This is the faith of the Church. We are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Amen.
There’s something about the string of I do’s followed by the simple phrase “This is the faith” that rocks me to my core.
I want to stand up and clap and cheer and shout and hoot and holler.
It’s hard to explain.
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Hey moms. These days are hard, I know.
You need some encouragement. An uplifting word. Something to carry you through. I have lots of that for you today, from moms who have been in your shoes.
But first, let’s pray together a quick meditation on the storms of life you’re going through.
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I’m not a pro at parenting.
I would propose that none of us are.
There’s always something new to learn about our kids, and our kids always have something new to teach us about ourselves.
Any time I think I have it all figured out, a new situation comes up which challenges my preconceived notions. Any time I think our family is rocking it – in behavior, in manners, in the faith, I discover something we could be doing to improve ourselves.
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#MyMassTakeaway for June 2, 2019 – which could be the Ascension, or the Sunday after the Ascension, depending on your diocese.
We were on our way to Mass, and the road was closed ahead. We took a right turn. Then a left.
The road was still closed.
Another right and another left.
Still closed.
We saw the steeple ahead of us and decided to drive up close to the caution tape and check out the situation.
It was a road race.
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