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November 30, 2022 By Maria Kane 1 Comment

One month into my junior year of high school and four months after my dad’s sudden death, I declared to my closest friends over school lunch mystery meat that I was quitting church, and, by extension, God.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: doubt, evangelism, friends, patron saints, St. Andrew, teenagers, teens at church

I Almost Missed the Wonderment and the Magnificent!

October 11, 2022 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

Hurrying around the parish campus, trying to get ready for our patron feast, Saint Michael’s Day, I would have easily missed something wonderful!

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Turn Around: Embracing Change On The Feast of Saint Matthew

September 21, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

As a child, my understanding of Lutheran theology was informed at least as much by its distance from Roman Catholicism as it was by anything we did in worship itself.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: change, patron saints, Prayer, roman catholic, St. Matthew

Tabitha: Wrapping the Poor in Blessings

October 25, 2021 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

The idea of being wrapped up, especially as the nights grow colder here in Maine, evokes a sense of coziness and warmth.

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Prayer as Antihistamine

April 25, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

I read somewhere that Saint Mark the Evangelist is the patron saint of people dealing with insect bites.

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Saint Teresa, the Cloud Of Witnesses, and Chronic Pain

October 15, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

When I was 11 years old, I began having head splitting aches.

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Andrew the Apostle: Patron Saint of Younger Siblings

November 30, 2019 By Meaghan Brower 2 Comments

I am the oldest of three children in my family. My two sisters are my best friends, though for many years before I came to see them that way they were also my worst enemies.

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Celebrating Saint Brigid, a woman of fiery faith

February 1, 2019 By Heather Sleightholm 1 Comment

I first learned of Brigid a few years ago while researching Ireland, and discovered that Brigid was another much beloved patron saint of the country, alongside Saint Patrick. I

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Amelia Bloomer: Patron Saint of the Yoga Pant and possibly the Messy Bun

December 30, 2018 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

I didn’t realize I knew Amelia Bloomer even before I read about her for this post. Growing up in a cluster of all-girls, uniform-enforcing schools, I was introduced to one of her lasting gifts to the world first hand: the bloomer.

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