Meeting Our Lady of LaVang
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Monday, August 20, 2012
This weekend I had the amazing opportunity to pray, worship and learn among a few hundred new friends in Oklahoma City. Tomorrow, I will share about the amazing Women of Faith, Women of Action conference. For today, I want to share with you a wonderful experience I had at Mass yesterday.
A friend and I determined in advance that we wanted to visit the beautiful Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.... READ MORE
St. Bridget, Pray for Us!
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Monday, July 23, 2012
Today, we celebrate the life of St. Bridget of Sweden. This mother of eight, whose own children included both a canonized saint (St. Catherine of Sweden) and others who rejected the church, went on to found a religious order. She is best known for her prayers, written as a result of mystical revelations. In October of 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of St. Bridget, calling on her intercession to help unite all Christians.... READ MORE
Tell Us About Your Fortnight
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Tomorrow, Cardinal Wuerl will close the Fortnight for Freedom with Mass at DC’s Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at noon.
Archbishop Chaput will be the homilist.
If you’re there, perhaps we’ll see each other. (Or watch it on EWTN.)
Tonight we’re attending a talk on religious liberty, followed by a holy hour of prayer for the country.
Tell us about your Fortnight activities—especially tell us about parish or diocesan events and how they went, and your reflections on the experience of two weeks of intense prayer and educational activity.
(One of the coolest things I heard about was a parish entering a religious liberty float in their town’s Independence Day parade.)
Don’t just share with us. If you’re on twitter, share reflections using hashtags #Fortnight4Freedom and #SacredProperty.
Get Out The Funk
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Monday, June 04, 2012
Here’s an interesting article with good suggestions for getting out of a blue mood. Ideas range from prayer to service to exercise, and the bottom line is it’s always nice to know that we all struggle with feeling kind of blah from time to time.
One of my favorite suggestions was from our own Lisa Hendey, who had some wonderful advice:
When I find myself in a funk, I try to actively do something for... READ MORE
The Hail Mary—A Closer Look
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Thursday, May 03, 2012
Over at her wonderful blog, our good friend Sarah Reinhard is engaged in a fascinating project: a word by word look at the Hail Mary.
Sarah’s invitation to her fellow bloggers to examine her favorite prayer was inspired by Jennifer Fulwiler’s original treatment of the Our Father at her blog, Conversion Diary. And if you know Sarah, you know this exercise is a perfect fit for our friend who so dearly... READ MORE
Praying for the Family
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Each month, the Pope has a list of the intentions he asks the faithful to remember in prayer. This month is one that will be dear to all of the readers here: families.
Specifically, Pope Benedict asks that we pray “that initiatives which defend and uphold the role of the family may be promoted within society”.
On that note, I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had with a friend the other day,... READ MORE
Screen or Face to Face?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Monday, April 23, 2012
This morning I found myself sitting next to the confessional at my sister’s parish while attending my nephew’s morning mass. The big “screen” sign on the door on my side started me pondering my own love-hate affair with the sacrament of Reconciliation.
For many years, I was deathly afraid of Confession—I would go, but really only begrudgingly. I think the fear was born out of many years of being... READ MORE
On Being a Catholic Woman Today
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Thursday, April 12, 2012
In preparation for a talk I am giving this weekend with the Rockford, IL Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, I was doing a bit of research and stumbled across this wonderful video that highlights women’s contribution and Pope Benedict XVI’s March general intention:
“That the whole world may recognize the contribution of women to the development of society.”
While pausing to pray this intention regularly... READ MORE
Good Friday Meditation
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Friday, April 06, 2012
Diego Velázquez’s crucifixion accompanied by Allegri’s setting of Psalm 50, Miserere Mei.
Reflecting on this Lenten Season
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Thursday, April 05, 2012
I’m always amazed, the older I get, at how often I reach this point in Lent—the Triduum—and realize that my Lenten season has strayed so far from what I’d originally envisioned when I prayerfully discerned my fasting, prayer and almsgiving prior to Ash Wednesday.
For a long time, I would arrive at Holy Thursday with a sense of failure—I’d slipped, given in to my worst temptations, and never prayed... READ MORE
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