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Reflections and a Life Well Lived

June 27, 2022 By Sarah Carr Leave a Comment

For a friendship more separate than equal, we don our funeral black, and sign the guest book on the way in, all our children watching and following our lead with solemnity.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: death, friendship, Jesus Christ

Sealed with the Holy Spirit

July 28, 2021 By Sarah Carr Leave a Comment

Emotions stand at what feels like a mere blink away, always. I hear her message, that one I read just before a daughter was delivered weeks early and would need multiple surgeries before she and I finally got to sleep under the same roof of home…eucharisteo. Thanks in all circumstances, for all things.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: baby, baptism, Lords Prayer, Prayer

Prayers of a Mom

May 4, 2021 By Sarah Carr 1 Comment

Saint Augustine of Hippo writes of his mom’s persistence in her fight for his soul while he lived a life devoted wholly to his self and the fulfilling of its passions.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, Good Shepherd, motherhood, Prayer

The Bread Box, Ecumenical Love, and Murals

April 22, 2021 By Sarah Carr 1 Comment

Whatever this seminary word may mean tomorrow, today ecumenical means that the Church universal served the church local, and everyone knew Love.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, church, ecumenism

Tradition is Life

December 28, 2020 By Sarah Carr Leave a Comment

“Oh! There are gifts on the mantel!” She says as she drops her backpack and coat on the way in from school.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, coronavirus, Family, rest, tradition

The Tension in Tabitha’s Life

October 25, 2020 By Sarah Carr 2 Comments

The people send for Peter, because Peter is friends with Jesus. We all do this, right? When I have a cold, I may text my friend with something like, “I feel miserable, say a little prayer for me,” but when I am having surgery, I want the priest there anointing!

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: coronavirus, St. Peter, tabitha

The World Matters

July 28, 2020 By Sarah Carr 1 Comment

What is going on in the world means something to me.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baptism, baptismal covenant

Imagining the Unimaginable

March 9, 2020 By Sarah Carr 1 Comment

We have “wittingly” exposed our children to the lyrics and notes of the musical Hamilton. 

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Hamilton, Lent, Music

I love you. Thank you.

September 27, 2019 By Sarah Carr 2 Comments

They sit in their carseats, next to one another holding hands. The palest caucasion skin of anyone in the family, enfolding the brown hand of his Hispanic little brother. “Are they both yours?” The woman meeting us for the first time asks. “Yes,” I reply, but she wants more. “How did you get that black haired one?” “Same way I got the blond haired one.”

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: foster parent, motherhood, parents, Prayer, siblings, young children

Reading Aloud

July 5, 2019 By Sarah Carr 3 Comments

When we had our first babies, reading aloud was a way to pass the time, from Narnia to seminary homework.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: books, children, children's books, parenting, reading

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