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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

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

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

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

Re-Imagining Mary

December 16, 2018 By Rosemary Thomas 3 Comments

Mary was a distant figure for me before having children. As a child she was the part in the nativity I never got to play (my short brown hair meant that I always lost out to my long blond-haired friends). As an adult, to me she was the venerated saint of Catholics, whose hailing brought a comfort I did not understand. I knew she was important, but I could not relate to her.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Mary, motherhood, nativity, poetry, pregnancy

The gift of the Holy Spirit: gentle as a breath.

June 4, 2017 By Marcus Halley 1 Comment

This Pentecost, how counter-cultural would it be for the church to emphasize the gentleness of Christ’s gift of the spirit? Maybe he discovered that gentleness from his mother.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, church, Mother's Day, motherhood, peace, Pentecost

Earth Day 2015: We signed papers to begin Plainsong Farm – and I became a new mom all over again.

April 22, 2017 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

This Earth Day, I’m remembering the birth of a new ministry. It was surprisingly like becoming a mom.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Earth Day, motherhood, new ministry, Plainsong Farm

Lent: a season of grief, of grace, of peace.

March 14, 2017 By Wren Blessing 11 Comments

Before my mom died, I faced Lent with a kind of calculated resolve. Now the season opens up differently for me, into a sort of invitation.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baby, birth, death, dying, grief, Lent, motherhood

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