We all go through our trials and tribulations. At different ages the trials and tribulations change. It sometimes seems that the more grown up we get, the more complicated our trials get. The more stuff we have, the more things…
Not Quite Perfect
Remain here, and watch with me
Last month, I reflected on the first Sorrowful Mystery in light of my first morning praying outside of the local abortion clinic, as part of 40 Days for Life. I was reading and praying Rosary Army’s Scriptural Rosary and found…
Money
This year, on Black Friday, that secular feast-day of money when people physically fight with each other in stores to buy things cheaply, you can buy a book called The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money. This is…
The Art of Giving
In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear the story of the widow’s mite. Jesus was sitting with his disciples in the Temple, across from the treasury where the people came to give their gifts to the Temple. As they rested, they…
Remember your Galilee moment?
Pope Francis spoke about how Jesus told his disciples after his Resurrection to return to Galilee where they first give their lives to him. “To return to Galilee means above all to turn to that blazing light with which God’s…
All Saints Day means Holiness for All!
Readings for the Solemnity of All Saints, Nov.1 At age 16, I thought that aspiring to holiness was out of the question. If you really wanted to be holy, I thought, you had to be a priest, nun, or brother….
New Evangelizers Round-Up
This past month I have been witness to a plethora of awesome and outstanding work produced by people I follow on Twitter, Facebook and various blogs. Three of these people I’ve come to know on this website; Greg Willits, Nancy…
Food for the Soul
“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.” John 4: 34 Jesus stopped by a well to rest while his disciples…
Turning to God
At this time of year, there is no more beautiful place to be than New England. Everything here bursts into color as the seasons change; as if the whole world was being transformed one leaf at a time. Our spiritual…
Chasing the Fox
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…