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Agatha of Sicily and Celebrating Whole Womanhood

February 5, 2023 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

Maybe you, like me, are surprised to see Pamela Anderson in a Christian education blog.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: abuse, martyrdom, patron saints, saints, teenagers, teens, women

Ammonius the Hermit

November 8, 2022 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

Have you ever googled someone—or yourself, of course!—only to discover a whole lot of other people, in other countries and states, with the same name? 

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The Challenge of Earth Day

April 22, 2022 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

What is our relationship to this fragile Earth, our island home? 

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Brigid’s reminder of the world’s malleability

February 1, 2022 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

Take a moment, and think of one of your heroes.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: brigid, Celtic Spirituality, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, superhero

Observing the Feast of Saint Stephen by Doing

December 26, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

I first learned of Stephen, as I suspect many of us do, via Wenceslas and his walk over deep, crisp, and even snow. In that lovely song, Stephen serves largely as the backdrop for an allegory about kingship.

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Each and All Saints

November 1, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

When we offer nighttime prayers at our house, we always include a section of ‘thank you, God’.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer, Saints Tagged With: All Saints' Day, children, communion of saints, death, Feast Days, parenting, Prayer, saints

The Blessed Confusion of Pentecost

May 23, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

To arrive at Pentecost, we should go through the Tower of Babel. The arrival of the Holy Spirit rhymes with that story on purpose—so let’s take a moment and follow a story we might not have thought about in years.

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Matthias: Humble and Ready to Grow

February 24, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

‘Humility.’ We can use the word in such ugly ways, but humility simply means to be real, to be honest, to be ourselves. If you’re doing Lent, it’s a good Lenten word.

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Seeing Humanity in the Saints We Don’t Like

September 30, 2020 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

If Jerome is right, and if you and I are going to be friends in the course of this post, I should start by being honest. I don’t really like Jerome.

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Macrina and Big Siblings in Faith

July 19, 2020 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

“Will you not put an end,” she asked, “to your failure to recognise the good things which come from God?” —The Life of Macrina by […]

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, siblings

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