I met Barbara Shoeneberger through the blogosphere, as we both participate in a weekly Catholic carnival. She has approached her chronic health issues with a beautiful attitude of faith. I hope her thoughts today will illuminate the sufferings in your lives as well. * Nobody gets through this life without mourning. Mourning implies loss of…
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Poor In Spirit? (TLL Review & Excerpt)
This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes is written for use with children, but it’s also at least as much aimed at forming the faith of the adults who work with them. Today’s excerpt, from Chapter 1: Blessed Are the Poor In Spirit, comes from the section for adults. Humility is not tolerating circumstances we…
Read MoreGuest Post: Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit (Week 1, This Little Light of Mine Blog Tour)
For our first guest post of the This Little Light of Mine blog tour, I’m excited to host Sr. Mary Jo Polak, OSB. I met her when I began working as director of liturgy & music at our parish, where she had been overseeing liturgy before me. She continued to be involved in the parish while…
Read MoreSo There Was A Point, After All
I don’t know about you, but I loathed much of the reading we did in English classes. I know writers are supposed to revere Hemingway, but my exposure to him turned me off him forever. What was the point of that story? Man exhausts himself in an attempt to catch a fish, which gets eaten…
Read MoreWelcome, Risen Jesus (Giveaway!)
Today I would like to welcome Sarah Reinhard back to the blog to answer everything you ever wanted to know about her Lent/Easter devotional for families, Welcome Risen Jesus. The last book of yours we talked about was Welcome Baby Jesus, your devotional book for families to use with children during Advent and Christmas. I…
Read MoreWelcome Baby Jesus
In these last few days before Advent begins (does anyone else feel discombobulated because there’s an extra week after Thanksgiving?), I’d like to take the time to introduce you to a great little book written for young families: Welcome Baby Jesus, by Sarah Reinhard of Snoring Scholar fame. Liguori promotes Sarah’s book and mine as…
Read MoreNovelizing Mary
Being a Christian and an aspiring fiction writer, I’m always interested in depictions of Biblical characters in fiction. Here are some thoughts on a couple novelizations of Mary I’ve read lately, over at Catholic Mothers Online.
Read MoreFaith in Fiction
As most of you know, I am a magazine writer with aspirations to publish a novel. I’m also a person whose life and faith are inseparable. This doesn’t mean I feel a need to walk around quoting chapter and verse all the time, but faith has to be a holistic part of every moment of…
Read MoreHow many of these books have you read?
My sister posted this on FB, and I thought it was too good to leave there. “Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. ” I have bold-faced all the ones I’ve read…fudging on Great Expectations, as I’m…
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