“Fasting is the helm of human life and governs the whole ship of our body” (St. Peter Chrysologus).
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One Meal a Day: Reviving an Ancient Monastic Discipline
20 FebStaying Married: Getting Beyond the Honeymoon Hype
2 Feb
“That I may love her with the perfect love of a perfectly whole heart, cause me to love Thee more than her and most of all. Amen. Amen” (Temple Gairdner).____________________________________
Raising Pro-Life Kids
11 Dec
I think this is at the heart of raising kids who know the sanctity of life: The witness of moms and dads who are utterly and unequivocally committed to protecting human life from conception until natural death.
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Pandemic Nursing School: Students on the Front Lines
6 Nov
“I have been able to show God’s love through my care. I pray for my patients and I truly empathize with them in a deep way.”
~ Gabi Reinoehl, nurse in training
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Dear Mayor Pete: A Testimony to Life
30 Jun
“Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example…” (1 Tim 4.12).
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Protecting Grandma After the Pandemic
22 May
“Is this not in large measure what it means to belong to a family: to burden each other — and to find, almost miraculously, that others are willing, even happy, to carry such burdens?”
~ Gilbert Meilaender
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Bl. John of Cetina & Bl. Peter de Dueñas
11 May
“Franciscans of Spain, they were sent to the Muslim kingdom of Granada in order to try and evangelize the inhabitants and were predictably killed.”
~ Basil Watkins
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You Can’t Not See It: Of Helm’s Deep, Emmaus, and the Rosary
10 May
“She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
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Fostering Peace, Healing Wounds, Embodying Christ
28 Apr
“The guards told us they’d never seen people
who lived their religion the way we do.”
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Free College, Fatherhood, and Financing Martyrdom
14 Dec
“I know that, if I do what I think God wants me to do,
he will take care of my family.”
~ Bl. Franz Jägerstätter
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