Young and old, educated and mentally impaired, healthy and addicted, they wrapped strong and weak arms around us and they held us up.
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Krista Tippett: Religion does not have a monopoly on faith.
Krista Tippett shares unexpected wisdom from 20 years of interviewing people about faith
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How I learned to love and raise the child from my husband’s affair
Like every child, my daughter is a gift. But, at first, her life was a hard gift to accept.
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Have you read the most-circulated book in the history of Christianity (after the Bible)?
After St. Ignatius discovered ‘Imitation of Christ,’ he “never wished to read any other devotional book.”
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Meet the Jesuit chaplain who prays for Congress. He could use your help.
I will see two people talking and pray: “Lord, whatever that is please bless that. Don’t even know what it is.”
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What the mockingbird on my windowsill taught me about the spiritual life.
As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.
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I had given up on prayer. Depression taught me how much I needed it.
Without the weeks I spent easing back into prayer, I would not be alive today.
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Struggling to find a faith community after college? Here’s how this college grad found her Ignatian sprituality
The more I learned about C.L.C., the more on fire I felt.
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Growing up with my boys at Mass
Sometimes they would rustle and fidget impatiently in the pews and fiddle with missals and fold the parish newsletter into ships and trumpets.
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A Shrine for the Year of Mercy
Mary is always shining in her window, watching over the street below. I have grown grateful for this rarefied presence, respectful and inclined toward pious feelings when I pass.