Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Deborah Gaudino to the New Evangelizers blog. Have you ever been to a fox hunt? Me neither. In fact, as a city girl, a fox hunt is about as foreign to me as a game…
Chasing the Fox
Loving Virtue
In the Gospel of Luke, the Rich Young Man went to Jesus and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus quoted to him the commandments, which the young man said he kept since he was a boy….
The Blind Man Speaks Up
October 25, 2015 the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time There were hundreds in the crowd that day at Jericho. No doubt all of them had needs, many of them urgent. But this Sunday’s gospel tells us that apparently only one…
Is it done?
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who…
Wounded Healers
Elisha died and was buried. Every year bands of Moabites used to invade the land of Israel. One time during a funeral, one of those bands was seen, and the people threw the corpse into Elisha’s tomb and ran off….
The Rosary and Me: My Neighbors Think I’m Nuts
This summer, I realized my family was in serious need of prayer. Oh, we are always in need of prayer, but this year things were a little more unsettled than usual. My eldest son was experiencing the growing pains of…
God Doesn’t Compare
“Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57) Lately I have had several discussions about the saints and martyrs of old. On first observation many of us have concluded that today’s…
Fear and Oprah: A Pre-Evangelization Primer
Over the past weekend, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, of Ann Arbor, Michigan appeared on an OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) “where are they now” show–a follow up to their appearances on the Oprah show in 2010….
John and James
Readings for October 18, 2015 , 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B It was time to make their move. Usually it was Peter who took the initiative, but now it was their turn. They cleared their throats and asked…
If you love something, set it free!
Gazing at my children in their cribs as newborns, I was amazed. These tiny little infants, barely a few days old, trusted us for every need: feeding, diapering, comforting. They knew at the slightest whimper, we would come running. The…