It’s Pentecost—the church’s birthday! This special day is a gentle reminder of the love of God, the Holy Spirit, the sanctifier and guide. The Paraclete will enkindle our hearts with God’s manyfold gifts to set this world on Fire for the Kingdom of Christ. Wow. Allow yourself to be enamored by God’s kiss through the Holy Spirit. Though we are many […]
A few months ago, I went to a talk about women being the grand finale of God’s creation story– it was eye-opening! I would love to one day share more details about that talk because it went through the beauty of being a woman as God intended. But today, I want to focus on the gift of nourishment that has […]
Here are chapters 65-67 of St. Justin Martyr’s first apology letter to Emperor Titus. He lived from around 100-170AD. His goal was to stop the persecution of Christians. In this letter, he explains the meaning of Christian worship. “Administration of the sacraments But we, after we have thus washed him who has been convinced and has assented to our teaching, […]
Define Catholic: cath·o·lic /ˈkaTH(ə)lik/ adj. “including a wide variety of things; all-embracing; universal.” Define Church: church /CHərCH/ noun “a building used for public Christian worship; a community of belivers.” If we put those all together, we see that the Catholic Church is a universal, all-embracing community of believers. The Church Jesus Christ established through his disciples in the first century has […]
St Therese, the little flower, who is the patron saint of this blog, happy feast day! I continue to learn more about you, and my admiration for you grows. How can it be that you knew your specific vocation was to be a nun at the Young age of 15?You went as far a visiting the Pope in time from […]