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Searching for Saint Brigid

February 1, 2023 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

Mame LOVED Saint Brigid.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: brigid, grandparents, ireland, spiritual practice

Tabitha’s Encouragement

October 25, 2022 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

When I reflect on Tabitha, I think of the many things that have died, literally and metaphorically, in the last few years.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: baptism, cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, tabitha, Zoom meeting

Continuing to Pray for Ukraine

March 11, 2022 By Lauren Kuratko 1 Comment

While I can’t control the war in the Ukraine, I can control my response to it.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: Prayer, War

The Loving Vulnerability of the Visitation

May 31, 2021 By Lauren Kuratko 1 Comment

Today we celebrate the Visitation of Mary. The Visitation is when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John (the baptizer). I like to think about this holy friendship—this time of mutual support and love for each other.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, friendship, love, motherhood, parenting, Visitation, vulnerability

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

February 2, 2021 By Lauren Kuratko 1 Comment

I love thinking about Simeon holding Jesus in the temple singing about how his eyes have finally seen God that light to enlighten the nations.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Feast Days, Holidays, Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ

In the Moment of Fleeing to Egypt

January 8, 2021 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

The end of Christmas crashes the promised healing of the manger scene into the wounded world and the terror cultivated by those who fear the loss of power. Christ is already active in the world, but everything is not yet well.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: parenting, politics, Wise Men and Women

The Complicated Call of Saint Francis

October 4, 2020 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

I have a complicated relationship with Saint Francis.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: peace, Prayer, St. Francis

Seeing the Glory of the Lord Off the Mountain

August 6, 2020 By Lauren Kuratko 1 Comment

I would love to be delivered from the disquietude, the anxiety, the unease, of this world. Want to come up with me to the mountain for just a little bit?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: coronavirus, Feast Days, Jesus, Transfiguration

Uncovering Rocks

June 24, 2020 By Lauren Kuratko 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve gotten into gardening. We are lucky enough to live in a home on a church property, with places around the property where we can garden.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: COVID-19, gardening, racism, transformation

Why are you staring at the sky?

May 30, 2019 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

In the retelling of this story in Acts chapter one, after Jesus ascends, the disciples are staring up towards the heavens and two men in white robes appear. They ask the disciples:“Why do you stand looking up towards heaven?”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Ascension, children, Feast Days, parenting

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