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The Sacred Heart For Our Times
John Kubasak - Jun 11, 2021
The month of June carries a special devotion to the Sacred Heart, although it’s a devotion to practice all year. With all the turmoil in the world, run to the ultimate answer: the merciful, loving Jesus. Kickstart the devotion with a novena, the litany, and the consecration. Nothing else will bring peace like His! -
How To Pray For the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Jeannie Ewing - May 27, 2021
The Holy Spirit dwells within all Christians. Jeannie Ewing reflects on how to be open to the Holy Spirit and pray for the gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord in our lives. -
Faith in the Face of Fear with St. Cristóbal Magallanes Jara and Companions
John Kubasak - May 21, 2021
St. Cristóbal and his companions show us the way through the pain and the suffering: trusting in Christ, staying faithful to Him, and embracing their cross. -
All About Icons
Gillian Weyant - May 13, 2021
Gillian Weyant discusses the history, purpose, and symbolism of icons as sacred images written for prayer and devotion. -
Lessons from the Life of Cora Evans
Jeannie Ewing - May 7, 2021
Cora Evans’ spirituality is, quite possibly, so remarkable, because of her ordinariness. She was a lay woman, married with children, and did not possess any spectacular abilities or talents. Yet she strove, in her own way and along her own journey on Earth, toward Jesus. Her particular love for the Eucharist fortified her to perhaps even love the ordinary, rather than seek pomp and popularity. -
The Benefits of Keeping a Prayer Journal
Rachel Forton - Apr 14, 2021
Keeping a prayer journal allows you to forever remember the beautiful ways God speaks to you in prayer and daily living, and even to pass down to future generations those stories of God’s particular faithfulness to you and your family. Your prayer journal serves as a reminder of God’s activity in your life and a record of God’s love when it feels as though God has become silent, and the process of keeping it can be an avenue of prayer in itself. -
The Book of Acts: In Power and In the Holy Spirit During the Easter Season
Sara and Justin Kraft - Apr 9, 2021
Sara and Justin Kraft reflect on the power of meditating on the book of Acts during the Easter season, inviting the power of the Holy Spirit into our lives, and working to understand unanswered prayers. -
The Paschal Mystery in the Context of the Passover
Fr. Mike Liledahl - Mar 30, 2021
As we celebrate the paschal mysteries this year, keep a sharp eye out for connections to the Jewish feast of the Passover, and as you do you’ll grow in a deeper appreciation not only for what Jesus was doing within the context of his time, but how God gradually prepared his people for the sacrificial offering of Jesus upon the cross on Good Friday. The New Passover, the new deliverance, the new covenant. -
St. Joseph is the Man!
John Kubasak - Mar 16, 2021
John Kubasak reflects on the life of St. Joseph and the lessons that the foster father of Jesus can give to our own spiritual lives. -
Grumbling in the Desert: 5 Tips to Not Complain During the Waiting
Jeannie Ewing - Mar 9, 2021
We tend to complain when we wait, because we do not see what God is doing in and around us. He often chooses to leave us blind to this work, because we must learn to grow in virtue, particularly patience and perseverance. Both can bear significant fruit in our interior lives if we allow them to unfurl during the trials of waiting for something to move, change, or happen. -
3 Lessons for Cultivating Obedience This Lent
Sara and Justin Kraft - Mar 2, 2021
Sara and Justin Kraft reflect on obedience as a virtue that promotes freedom and provide lessons on how to cultivate obedience during the season of Lent. -
Why Penance? Removing Distraction to Focus on God
Gillian Weyant - Feb 16, 2021
“In acts of penance, we often will come away with a greater understanding of what in our everyday lives is taking our attention away from loving God as well as we can.” --Gillian Weyant This week’s blog looks into the reason we take on acts of penance (alongside other spiritual practices) during the season of Lent and how to choose penance that is right for growth in your relationship with God. -
St. Josephine Bakhita: Grace Amidst Suffering
Hannah Crites - Feb 11, 2021
Throughout her life, St. Josephine Bakhita endured unspeakable hardship and violence, so much so that she was stripped of her identity and dignity. But in that, she was able to blossom into one of the most beautiful, gentle saints we have the blessing to know. -
Ordinary Time: A Call to Discipleship
Mackenzie Worthing - Feb 4, 2021
Ordinary Time is our chance to become the ordinary disciples – to put our discipleship in proper order in our ordinary lives. The apostles ought to be the model of how the faithful approach Ordinary Time: respond to the call, listen to the teaching, and dwell with Christ throughout our daily tasks. -
Learning from the Conversion of St. Paul
John Kubasak - Jan 20, 2021
The conversion lesson to us is that no conversion can take place without falling before God in humility. Sometimes God steps in dramatically in our lives—our own road to Damascus—but not always. We can’t expect or wait for a blinding flash of light, or hold in envy those that do have extraordinary conversions. The essence of conversion is available to every single person: humility.
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- 1I Was A Pilgrim In History
- 2An Introduction to the Life and Writings of Cora Evans
- 3The Refugee from Heaven
- 4A Time to Laugh and a Time to Weep
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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