Choose Truth. Chose Joy.
We love to complain, whether to our family over dinner, to our friends on social media, or to relative strangers through posts on our blogs. We criticize,…
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Author: Jacqueline Vick
Are You Making an Effort?
When I was a child, Christmas meant decorations inside the house and lights strung outside on the eaves and bushes, gifts under the tree, and Midnight Mass. The…
But Are You Listening?
Recently, Father Mike Schmitz at Ascension Presents said in one of his videos that All unasked for advice is criticism. Wow. I’m constantly doling out the benefit of…
Images of Christ in Those Around Us…and in Ourselves
I was looking through old photographs the other day. Yes, actual have-them-developed-and-hold-them-in-your-hand type of photographs. Many of the people in those images are no longer part of my…
Get to Know God Through the Litanies
I love the Easter Vigil Mass. From the lighting of the Easter candle outside of the church, to the thrill of watching as new members are baptized and…
Priests Need Your Love and Prayers, Not Your Criticism
We’re so used to getting what we want when we want it, myself included. And I’ve written before about how we get caught up in the details, and…
The Devil is in the Details. . . Literally!
I remember a time when I was at morning Mass. Just before the Our Father, the man next to me reached out to join hands. I explained…
How to Have a Servant’s Heart
In the Gospel of John, Jesus showed us what a servant’s heart looks like when he washed the feet of the apostles. Parishes often reenact this event on Holy…
Don’t Fear the “Small Faith Group”
It wasn’t long ago that the mention of a “small faith group” would have sent me scrambling for the nearest exit. If offered a choice between participating in…
Bearing Fruit
The New Testament is filled with references to bearing fruit. Scripture tells us that good trees bear good fruit and bad trees do not, and that branches that…