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Susan Hines-Brigger

Susan Hines-Brigger is an executive editor of St. Anthony Messenger magazine. She has worked at Franciscan Media for 30 years. She and her husband, Mark, are the parents of four children, and grandparents of one.

Faith and Family

Susan Hines-Brigger December 26, 2018

Rebuild My Church

“You have to go to Mass to hear Father Ben’s homily. ”

That was the message I got in text after text on a Saturday night a few months ago. Just days before, I had shared on my Facebook page the column I wrote on this very page about my struggle with the latest wave in the ongoing sex-abuse crisis.

“I’m done, ” I had told so many of my friends. “I can’t do this anymore. ”

“Just go and listen, ” encouraged one friend. “It might give you hope. “

Psalm 139: Endless Love

Susan Hines-Brigger December 21, 2018

“You formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, so wonderfully you made me;
wonderful are your works!”
(Psalm 139:13-14)

Faith and Family: Mary and Elizabeth

Susan Hines-Brigger December 19, 2018

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LK 1:39-45

Mary set out
and traveled to the hill country in haste
to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said,
“Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

Faith and Family: The Coming of Christ

Susan Hines-Brigger December 5, 2018

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BAR 5:1-9

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,
and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
of Ituraea and Trachonitis,
and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,
the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert.

I See You’

Susan Hines-Brigger November 26, 2018

Even if everything I see or hear doesn’t result in an actual gift, what a gift in itself it is to learn more about that person. As for the actual gifts, they don’t have to be big or pricey just something that lets the person know that you’re paying attention to him or her.

Woman smiling | Photo by Parastoo Maleki on Unsplash

Who’s Your Neighbor?

Susan Hines-Brigger October 30, 2018

Recently I was standing with my kids in the checkout line at the store when my son, Alex, fixed his eyes on a woman a few lines down, dressed in traditional Muslim attire.

Cupcakes Broken and Shared

Susan Hines-Brigger October 24, 2018

This month, we are entering a time of year that is very focused on food and togetherness first Thanksgiving, then Christmas. It is in that spirit that I am writing this column. But this gathering of food and friends wasn’t tied to any big holiday. No, it happened on a random Saturday night.