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Gentle Mary

July 26, 2022 By Mariclair Partee Carlsen 1 Comment

In the early months of the pandemic, locked down with my young children in a too small city row house with no real backyard to speak of, I found myself losing my patience, something already in short supply, much like milk, diapers, and grocery delivery slots.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parenting

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: a qualitative not quantitative union

June 12, 2022 By Tim Gavin 2 Comments

What I remember most about learning my catechism as a child is memorizing facts about why God loved me.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Trinity Sunday

Pentecost’s Reminder to Keep Jesus’ Commands

June 5, 2022 By Dorian Del Priore Leave a Comment

The Feast of Pentecost is loaded with profound and fantastical readings of scripture.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: commandments, Feast Days, godparents, Jesus Christ, Pentecost

Lifting up the lowly

May 31, 2022 By Mary Lee Wile 1 Comment

When I was a little girl, the closet in my bedroom had a back door. You pushed through clothes, unlatched a hook, and behind the door was a dark tunnel: a slanted crawl space that ran the length of the house.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer Tagged With: Elizabeth, magnificat, Mary, Prayer, Visitation

Does God care about my skinned knee?

May 26, 2022 By Genevieve Razim 1 Comment

What is your favorite day in the Church Year? Christmas? Easter? Pentecost? All Saints?
Does anyone ever answer with Ascension Day?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, Feast Days, Jesus, Philip

Every Last Thing is a Season

April 17, 2022 By Emily Rutledge 2 Comments

This Easter I am practicing resurrection. I am practicing hope. I am practicing knowing that no matter how bad it gets there is redemption, even after death.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Uncategorized Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter, resurrection, seasons

Holding onto Hope in Another Pandemic Lent

March 2, 2022 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

As we enter into our third Lent of the pandemic, I’m grateful for the muscle memory and predictable patterns I have created for this season. T

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, faith at home, Lent, Prayer, SALT, Traci Smith

Epiphany, Pregnancy, The Already, and the Not Yet

February 8, 2022 By Lindsay Barrett-Adler 3 Comments

Sandwiched between its higher status siblings Christmas and Lent, Epiphany sometimes feels like the middle child of liturgical seasons.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Epiphany, incarnation, siblings, waiting

Presenting God with Gifts from Our Hearts

February 2, 2022 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

When I think of The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord, I can’t help recalling the offertories I have witnessed in Haiti.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Haiti, offering, Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ

Christ to the Nations 

January 6, 2022 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

My exploration continued into Seaport Village.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: cross, Epiphany, evangelism

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