Don’t Break the Bowl: Straight Talk for a Busy Soul
Claire Dwyer
August 8, 2019
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Claire Dwyer suggests four ways for our souls to thrive in the busy seasons of life.
St. Francis de Sales on Multi-Tasking
Jessica Fahy
August 3, 2019
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Rushing? Multi-tasking? Checking all the boxes? What would the saints say?
Never Stop Coming: This Present Paradise, Part 5
Claire Dwyer
July 16, 2019
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Buried under the most strong-willed child can be a beautiful vocation, as it was for St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. Claire Dwyer continues her series of reflections.
I Have Everything: This Present Paradise, Part 1
Claire Dwyer
June 5, 2019
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“Take your Crucifix,” counsels Elizabeth of the Trinity, “look, listen.” Claire Dwyer finds the starting-point of the saint’s story.
St. Rita of Cascia: Small in Stature, Great in Holiness
Claire Dwyer
May 23, 2019
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St. Rita was “small in stature but great in holiness, who lived in humility and is now known throughout the world for her heroic Christian life as a wife, mother, widow and nun.” – Pope St. John Paul II
Love Never Takes A Day Off
Joseph Hollcraft
March 14, 2019
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Joseph Hollcraft found new meaning in the Little Way of St. Thérèse when his day took a series of unexpected turns.
A Woman For All Seasons: St. Frances of Rome
Claire Dwyer
March 9, 2019
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If you are busy juggling family, friends, work, and prayer, trying to balance works of mercy with your daily duty, prayer time with household chores, and marriage with ministry, then let today’s saint be an inspiration, as she is for Claire Dwyer.
Choosing Lenten Devotionals: Wisdom From Blessed Columba Marmion
Leila Marie Lawler
March 4, 2019
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How does one choose a Lenten devotional? The secret to this, and to a life of piety in general, is to respect the hierarchy of our duties. Leila Marie Lawler offers wisdom as Lent approaches.
Living the Hidden Years
Claire Dwyer
February 25, 2019
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Not only is the Christian life redeemed in all its moments by a God who entered them to make them holy – but it is also meant to mysteriously extend Christ’s own life, throughout time, in our own. Claire Dwyer reflects on the hidden years.
He Speaks into Our Silence
Claire Dwyer
December 27, 2018
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“The silence of prayer is a surrendering of our own words and the noise surrounding us so that something far fuller can rush in – so that we can be “filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19). So that the creative, powerful and eternally self-donating Word, the one Word that matters, the eloquent Word that contains perfectly within it all our poor scattered syllables of truth, can be spoken. And in speaking, transform us within that silence to be a little bit more like Him. In speaking, reduce our interior and exterior storms to obedient breezes.”
Claire Dwyer reflects on the necessity of silence in the spiritual life.
