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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 ... -
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 bl... -
Ordinary Time: A Call to Discipleship
Kenzie Key - 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 teac... -
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 f... -
Living Your Baptismal Mission as Priest, Prophet, and King
Sara and Justin Kraft - Jan 6, 2021
On Sunday, January 10 we will celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. Through Baptism we are redeemed and made children of God for mission. We live out this mission by sharing in the offices of Christ as priest, prophet, and king. Today’s blog discu... -
How to Make the Most of the Christmas Octave (& Season!)
Kimberly Timmerman - Dec 23, 2020
Kimi Timmerman explains why the Christmas season doesn’t end on Christmas day and our celebration of Christ’s birth continues on! -
St. John of the Cross—Reflection on His Sayings of Light and Love
Jeannie Ewing - Dec 14, 2020
St. John of the Cross wrote tomes of pithy spiritual gems in both poetry and prose, containing sage advice glimmering with symbolism. In honor of his feast day, here are five of those words he imparted hundreds of years ago. They are meant to inspire... -
Why Did the Word Become Flesh?
Kenzie Key - Dec 2, 2020
May we spend this Advent season meditating more and more on the bewildering joy of the Incarnation. May we come to a fuller understanding of our need for redemption. May we come to a deeper awareness of God’s love for us and come to love him mo... -
5 Tips for a Fruitful Advent During a Dark Time
Kenzie Worthing - Nov 24, 2020
It’s been a difficult year. Kenzie Worthing reflects on how to make the most of this upcoming Advent season and await the coming of Christ, the light in the darkness. -
How to Make a More Contrite Confession
Rachel Forton - Nov 17, 2020
In our deeply flawed and hurting world, the fact that God readily and freely gives His mercy to all those willing to approach Him in repentance is simply amazing. We should not take for granted the beautiful healing God wishes to give us in the Sacra... -
Why Having a Spiritual Director Is Important
Jeannie Ewing - Nov 12, 2020
Ten years ago, I’d stumbled upon a crossroads in my spiritual growth. I tried everything...Still, I felt stuck, stagnant. That’s when I knew I needed a spiritual director. A good spiritual director will not only listen to your qualms, bu... -
How My Spiritual Life Has Changed Since COVID
John Kubasak - Oct 20, 2020
Daily life has not been the same since early this year. COVID has upended our churches, schools, recreation, and work. Is there an area of life it hasn’t disrupted? Sometimes forgotten on that list, but definitely needed, is o... -
Praying with Proverbs
Gillian Weyant - Oct 12, 2020
Reading the Old Testament can be daunting. In this article, Gillian Weyant provides some background and helpful strategies to meditate fruitfully with the book of Proverbs and to apply the lessons to our own lives. "It is impossible to rec... -
The (Often Unseen) Power of Intercessory Prayer
Sara and Justin Kraft - Oct 6, 2020
A basic tenet of our faith is that prayer is powerful. Unfortunately, and all too often, we do not live as if we believe this. I cannot count how many times I have prayed without confidence, without attention, and without expectation. It is an easy t...
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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.
Letter Lessons
The newest addition to The Cora Evans Library. “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Lk 9:23). Being a Catholic Christian is a call to action. Our God is not passive or indifferent or lukewarm. He is active, involved, and on fire. And He is vying with the devil for your soul. Following Jesus takes perseverance, self-denial, trust, and total commitment. This is not a book about Jesus; it’s about you and how you open yourself to Him in ways you’ve never even considered.”
Gems
The reflections of Cora Evans included in Gems reveal many new details about Catholic truths, deeper knowledge of theological truths, and new light and evidence to the deposit of faith, especially regarding the humanity of Christ, the Holy Eucharist and the indwelling of Christ.
Sparks from His Heart
Ever wonder why Jesus said, “I come to cast a fire on the earth”? His next words—“how I wish it were ignited”—suggest a certain impatience. For over 50 years, Jesuit priest, Fr. Frank, preached on the syndicated “Catholic Quarter Hour” radio program. He selected his favorite talks to be published in this book, Sparks from His Heart.
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