Faithful Not Successful
Just as I am, and as I might be
Parenting—or life, really—requires holding a certain tension in your mind between two truths. Image: Boy standing in a ...
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4 tips for fighting back against acedia
Acedia: It’s one of those obscure theological ideas, plucked from the annals of the Desert Fathers, that seems ...
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Spiritual Communion for Social Distancing
If your family is like ours, you're spending today weighing whether taking your high-risk child to Mass is ...
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What Our Lady of Lourdes taught me about the power of weakness
This article first appeared at Accepting the Gift and is reprinted here with permission. St. Bernadette Soubirous, the ...
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The death of innocence and the death of innocents
Last January, a friend and I chaperoned twelve teenage girls to Washington, DC, to attend the national March ...
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Why EMDR therapy is great for special needs parents
At the beginning of this academic year, I walked in to attend Mass with my children at the ...
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On Loan, On Layover [Guest Post by Annamarie Adkins]
Annamarie Adkins is a Catholic wife and mother to four children, two of whom were malades that we ...
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What your grandma meant by “offer it up,” and how to make your life a gift to the world
It's time for another Lourdes story. Also another "Christy hearing voices" story. (Those two things usually happen together...) ...
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The care and feeding of a keto kid (now with 100% more gifs!)
When we'll be out of the house all day, we prep all of Oscar's food and meds the ...
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What’s in a name? How our kids got their Catholic saint names and why it matters
Our family has an unwritten but unbroken rule about naming our children. Every child gets a first name ...
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