So Many Tears: St. Monica
Claire Dwyer
August 27, 2019
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Years of patient love and powerful prayers always pay off in the end.
My Father’s House: On the Sacredness of Our Places and Spaces
Claire Dwyer
August 20, 2019
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“Something hardwired in us tells us, these places are consecrated to resurrect our hope. And we feel somehow, entering a Basilica, chapel, catacomb, or cell – even after crossing strange seas and deserts – that we have in a mysterious way come home.” Claire Dwyer blogs today on the significance and sacredness of places.
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. 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
The One Great Thing to Love on Earth
Claire Dwyer
March 4, 2019
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A powerful storyteller reveals the true source of strength – He is who is to be loved above all.
Claire Dwyer tells how she came to make this year’s Lenten resolutions.
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.
Thy Face is My Fatherland: Under the Gaze of God
Claire Dwyer
February 11, 2019
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Some of the greatest saints of the Church – and through Scripture, even God Himself – have used the example of gazing into the eyes of another to try to capture the beautiful and astonishingly real experience of God’s great love in the soul: contemplative prayer. Claire Dwyer reflects.
Holy Innocents: First Martyrs and Pro-Life Patron Saints
Claire Dwyer
December 28, 2018
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On the fourth day of Christmas, the Church gives to us a somber memorial which concretizes what could very possibly become, thanks to elves and snowmen, an overly sentimental feast of Christ’s birth. Claire Dwyer reflects on the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
The Secret of Saint Gianna
Claire Dwyer
December 21, 2018
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Meeting each morning as an opportunity for prayer and love – in motherhood, in the workplace, in the many nooks and crannies of the world – that is possible. And it strengthens us for the heroic, the impossible, the possible-only-with God. That is the secret of St. Gianna, Claire Dwyer reveals.
Mother of a Seminarian
Jo Flemings
October 20, 2016
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What’s it like to be the mother of a seminarian? Find out when Jo Fleming reflects…and shares her spiritual journey.
