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Melanie Rigney

Melanie Rigney is the author of Brotherhood of Saints and Radical Saints (Franciscan Media). Melanie is also a regular contributor to Living Faith, the Catholic devotional, and writes weekly for Your Daily Tripod, a Catholic blog. She is a member of the Catholic Writers' Guild, Capital Christian Writers, and several other writing groups. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, where she is a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church and is active in the Cursillo movement.
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What’s Your Vocation?

Melanie Rigney January 28, 2023

Reflect He wanted to reunite Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, and became a Capuchin friar as a step toward that desire. But Leopold Mandić’s

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An Unlikely Missionary

Melanie Rigney January 10, 2023

Reflect She was working as a laundress so that she could become a missionary sister. A fall into a vat of boiling water derailed that

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What’s in God’s Plan?

Melanie Rigney December 10, 2022

Reflect It takes trust—and often patience—to discern God’s plan for us. Zélie Guerin (1831-1877) initially believed she was called to be a woman religious, but

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