I hate the end of the Christmas season! Everything appears to be so vanilla including lights, food, and people’s spirits. On January 2 I get depressed for a couple of weeks as I adjust to the new normal. Recently though…
3 Wise Men and Post-Holiday Blues
Bearing Witness to the Truth
Since taking part in my first 40 Days for Life, I’ve been reflecting on the Sorrowful Mysteries — in particular, a set of Biblical meditations from Rosary Army’s Scriptural Rosary. In the Second Sorrowful Mystery meditation, we read this: “Jesus…
Fruits of the Season
Whether the holidays bring us closer to our family or we still keep our distance, they are always our family. Some family members are more loveable than others. We are more loveable to some of them than to others. But…
Catholic Pop Culture of 2015
As I have for the last two years I shall recall any good things from the popular culture that are harmonious or helpful to Catholic culture. There were many things past year and many things coming up in 2016 that…
Realigning Your Resolutions for Relationship
Editor’s Note: Please join me in welcoming Jacqueline Vick to the New Evangelizers blog! As a child, I rang in every year with the same routine. My parents would allow me to stay up until midnight, and as the countdown…
Cracking Open Our Hearts of Stone
Editor’s Note: This is a re-post from 2013 that fits in very well with the Year of Mercy. It wasn’t so long ago that my motto was, “I will forgive, but I’ll never forget.” Sometime later I read, “To forgive,…
Christian Prayer: A Catholic Tradition
Editor’s Note: This is a re-posting from 2014 on prayer which I thought could be useful as we contemplate resolutions for the New Year. At times referred to as the Divine Office, the Liturgy of the Hours, or the Breviary,…
Ponderables
With the commercial side of Christmas over, we can now quietly and simply, focus on the spiritual side of Christmas and the coming New Year. I know many of us have already embarked on a spiritual Christmas by celebrating Advent…
Practical Steps to Fill Your Grace Well
The most effective way to refill the ‘grace well’ at the heart of how we choose the things of God over that of the world is by participating, in what I affectionately refer to as, the “Grace Trifecta”. The secret…
7 Ways to Share Christ at Christmastime
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” With these memorable words, Charles Dickens has captured the sentiment of every enthusiastic Catholic evangelist regarding Christmas. On the one hand, Christmas is an evangelist’s dream – a…