That’ll Leave a Mark

It’s Lent not November.  By now you have at least pondered how you will try to alter your prayer and faith life for the good.  You may or may have not been successful up to this point, the first week…

Just One Thing

So, I was thinking about Lent 2017 and all sorts of choices, proposed actions and guilts are swirling around in my head.  You know:  how Lent should make me better, amp up my spiritual life, change my prayer life and…

Sweet Sounds

“The footsteps of those who bring good news is a welcome sound.  Faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ.” (Rm 10: 15, 17).   In our society, today we have completely changed…

The Vocabulary of Change

Not long after the Nativity we celebrate the Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas. People who celebrate this holiday recognize it as the arrival of the Magi at the birth of Jesus after a long arduous journey to seek the…

God’s Significant Extremes

Well, the holidays are just barely off the radar and it’s probably time for you to answer this question:  How comfortable were you in the middle of the milieu of family, gifts, celebrations?  Did you get a lot of “stuff”…

Advent Vocabulary

One of the gifts of our Church is the way that our rituals are folded into the rhythm of life.  So it is with the season of Advent.  In our Liturgical practice, Advent is really the doorstep to Christmas and…

Early Gifts

Are you excited?  Did you get it?  What, you say?  Your gift, your early Christmas gift from Jesus.   It was right there, in his conversation this morning, the third day of Advent: “Turning to the disciples in private he said,…

Perfect Faith

Isn’t it exhausting?  All that rule-keeping and striving to be good, doesn’t that just make you tired? The Church calls us to task about how we worship, act, think, pray and speak.  Just keeping track of all that stuff is…

Face It

When it comes to Saints and Holy Things we all tend to get a bit overwhelmed by the realities that those situations present to us. Realities such as:  1. Saints were all simply ordinary people just like you and me….

Murderer!

The devil is in the details some say. When you see the title of this piece, pay closer attention because it refers to YOU, yes you! I’m not really a gambler, but I’d bet with pretty good odds that the…

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2018/03/07 By

Kathryn Cunningham

Kathryn Cunningham, a contributor to this blog, went to her eternal rest in February. Kathryn began writing here in 2012. I always looked forward to her posts and her wry comments in our email exchanges. Jennifer Willits, the site’s founder,…

2016/11/02 By

You Saint You

In November our Church calls us to remember the remarkable of the Church both recognized (All Saints) and those unrecognized (All Souls). We set up memorial tables, reverence the book of the dead and attend memorial Masses. All the while…

2014/09/23 By

Breath

I’ve been retired a while now and have been moved to the place where I am constantly reading and seeking all of the “natural” points of view about health.  If you have done some looking at anything that hints of Oriental…

2013/10/22 By

Living Beyond the “I”

As a retired person I have the opportunity to listen to a lot of talk radio.  I have abandoned the public display of human misery that appears with regularity on daytime TV; it gives me a headache!  There is one…

2012/07/24 By

Second Chances and Freedom

Editor’s note: Today we welcome Kathryn Cunningham to the New Evangelizers blogging team! The gift of freedom is the one identifiable privilege all Americans share, despite other differences. Here in the USA we can say, do, and think what we want, within…

2017/12/06 By

Just Like Sheep

A few days ago we celebrated the feast of Christ the King. In the Church year this is always the marker of ending and the time to begin the preparation for the new Liturgical Year, Advent. This Feast, for me…

2017/11/01 By

You Saint You!

In November our Church calls us to remember the remarkable of the Church both recognized (All Saints) and those unrecognized (All Souls). We set up memorial tables, reverence the book of the dead and attend memorial Masses. All the while…

2017/10/05 By

Waiting for Perfection

“Oh Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” If you are Catholic and you don’t recognize the previous words, to say the least, you…

2017/09/20 By

For Ever and Ever

I am sometimes shocked when I hear people say things like “I want to live forever!” The ones who have that to say are usually young, have no ailments and no real stresses in their life. But “forever”, wow! Times…

2017/09/06 By

What R U Lookin’ At?

In the lessons surrounding John the Baptist there are many things that get our immediate attention as well as some things that don’t but should! Let’s fill in the details a bit about John and his ministry. First of all,…