Dealing with Bad Days

What do you do when you’ve had a really bad day? It happens to all of us. Sometimes days just seem to go south. I had one of those days recently (I’ll spare you the details), and I began to reflect on how to deal with days like this, as opposed to merely giving in to discouragement and...

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My new patron saint

Posted by Diane M. Houdek on May 23, 2013

I love finding quirky connections between seemingly unrelated things. So this weekend when I was at the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival in Lexington, I was thrilled when I found a set of wool combs named after St. Blaise. He’s the patron saint of wool workers,...

The Paradox of Holiness

Posted by Guest Blogger on May 22, 2013

Our guest blogger today is Father Jim Van Vurst, OFM. With Jack Wintz, OFM, he writes the twice-montly Friar Jack’s E-spirations. Our lived faith is filled with paradoxes—events in our lives that may seem to mean one thing but actually mean the opposite. An...

A Pope Who Mirrors the Values ...

Posted by Jack Wintz on May 20, 2013

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires became Pope Francis on March 13, thus becoming the first pope of the Americas! During the process of his election, Pope Francis said, “I had the archbishop emeritus of Sao Paulo next to me, Cardinal Hummus, OFM, a dear,...

Amazing Grace

Posted by Tammy Monjaras on May 17, 2013

This weekend while straightening up my porch, I noticed my front door wreath was crooked. When I removed the wreath to rehang it, I didn’t realize there was a small bird nest built deep inside the wreath. When I repositioned the wreath, three tiny eggs fell to the...