
A New Encounter with the Psalms
The inspiring words of these biblical songs helped me navigate some of life’s biggest challenges.
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The inspiring words of these biblical songs helped me navigate some of life’s biggest challenges.
Forty is one of those numbers that seem to turn up everywhere.
In August of 2006, Wendy Avery returned to her Ohio home, feeling as if she was trying to jump back onto a spinning merry-go-round. For an entire year, her world had stopped, but everyone else’s kept spinning. How does one simply hop back on? How does one rejoin the dance when the music has been muted?
Pope Paul VI wrote succinctly: “Mary is held up as an example to the faithful for the way in which in her own particular life she fully and responsibly accepted the word of God and did it….She is worthy of imitation because she was the first and most perfect of Christ’s disciples.”
On the brink of election season, it already feels like the tension in our country has reached a peak unparalleled in my lifetime.
Enjoy these holy words from St. Clare of Assisi!
Born March 11, 1910, in Portugal | Died February 20, 1920, in Portugal
Canonized May 13, 2017 | Feast Day: February 20
Jacinta’s Radical Gift
Having seen a vision of hell, St. Jacinta offered up lunches, persecution by those who doubted the children of Fátima, and other penances to keep others from suffering.
Jacinta’s World
St. Katharine Drexel was raised in a loving family that had plenty of money and philanthropic spirit.
In the over 20 years that I’ve been writing for this magazine, I’ve seen tons of letters from parents worrying about their children’s faith lives.
Sixteen-year-old Enola ( “alone ” spelled backwards), played by Millie Bobby Brown, lives with her mother, Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter), on the family’s estate in England. Eudoria teaches her daughter every school subject, however unconventional, and how to fend for herself.
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