prayer

Hope: The Virtue of Not Yet

Hope That Doesn’t Disappoint This discussion about the virtue of hope is not about hope expressed in statements like, “I hope Coach Payton can work

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adoration

Holy Hour Adoration

Every week I take an hour to sit in prayer before the Blessed Body of Christ in our parish Adoration Chapel. It is an exercise

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Happiness, prayer, prayers, faith

Overcoming a Hypokinetic Faith

Because of a past professional career in exercise science and physical fitness, I like to make analogies from the physical domain to the spiritual domain

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anchor

Deep Faith Amid Life’s Storms

A deep faith–it’s what’s needed to weather life’s storms–now and in the days ahead. What storms? You pick: current trends in the Church, in society

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wilderness, isolation, alone, balance, mountains

This World

With rising costs of food and just about everything else, makes sense to cut back, right? Too much of anything of this world is not

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argument, forbearance

You Can’t Run Away

While driving back home from a 40 Day for Life shift I got annoyed at all the political ads on the radio station to which

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Jesus Christ, Love, Sacred Heart

Dear Sacred Heart of Jesus

On July 29th, 2022, I wrote my first handwritten letter to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a blue prayer journal that my sister bought

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rainbow, hope, promise, future

Healing the Land

Last week, I embarked on a wild ride through the northeastern United States. While my husband stayed behind to care for land and animals, I

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Faith: How to Keep It

Jesus Is Taken Down From the Cross My hour of prayer begins as I approach the thirteenth Station. The focus of this station is the

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