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.
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What I learned in prison from ‘convict college’
Prisons don’t solve problems. They create problems.
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I never imagined I would end up in prison, but I wanted to learn
We are inclined to label “wolves,” who are so often the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized.
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Three ways to make decisions like a Jesuit
St. Ignatius suggests three possible intellectual and emotional “times” of one’s life “in any of which a sound and good election can be made.”
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James Martin: The saints seemed so far away. Then I started to climb.
For me, wisdom comes mainly in the form of insights.
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Celebrating scapulars, a neglected item of Catholic devotion
Now even the word “scapular” is a rare sighting, let alone the lovely gentle honest thing itself.