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Abide With Me

September 11, 2020 By Carrie Willard 6 Comments

I don’t know much about dream analysis, but maybe I should look into it.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: coronavirus, dreams, hymns, songs

For the Love of a Mother

August 15, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

I have to be very careful when I write about the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, Mary, motherhood

Liturgical Time Capsule

May 25, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

The idea came to me when I was gathering up the stubs of taper candles that we used for our Easter Vigil.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter Vigil, Holy Week, Palm Sunday

You are forgiven.

May 12, 2020 By Carrie Willard 3 Comments

As a Generation X woman, working mother, clergy spouse, and people pleaser, I’ve often felt the “damned if we do, damned if we don’t” pull inside myself.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: compassion, coronavirus, forgiveness, Jesus, parenting

The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

February 2, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

Today is the day that many Christians remember and honor the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, or the event in scripture when Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the Temple.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: baby Jesus, Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Simeon

Grow at the Movies: Troop Zero

January 30, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

When I saw the trailer for “Troop Zero,” featuring Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, and Viola Davis, I was instantly charmed and knew I wanted to watch it with my family.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: daily life, grace, Grow at the Movies, Jesus, redemptions, TV

Whimsical, Wise Reminders

January 6, 2020 By Carrie Willard 2 Comments

Modern parenting has no shortage of overthinking things, and in particular, no shortage of overthinking holiday celebrations.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Advent, children, Epiphany, Feast Days, parenting, young children

Saint Francis’ Reminder

October 4, 2019 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

Anyone who visits our house might guess at why we love Saint Francis of Assisi, known for his love of animals.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: animals, fear, Jesus, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, St. Francis

Celebrating Hildegard of Bingen and God’s Determined Love

September 17, 2019 By Carrie Willard 3 Comments

Today, we honor the feast day of Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century Benedictine abbess who was not elevated to sainthood until 2012. She was a prolific writer and composer, leaving us dozens of songs and poems, and nine books, including works on medicine and pharmacology.

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Celebrating Adelaide Teague Case and Religious Education

June 19, 2019 By Carrie Willard Leave a Comment

Today, June 19, we remember Adelaide Teague Case, who died seventy-one years ago. “An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church” tells us that Dr. Case was “the first woman to be appointed to full professional rank in an Anglican seminary.” She was a theologian, librarian, professor, and writer, but she lived at a time before women could be ordained in the Episcopal Church.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: children, Christian formation, cloud of witnesses, questions, Sunday School

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