I’ve had some pretty intense conversations with friends on whether it’s harder to live for Christ or to die for him. Let’s just agree that both are extremely challenging, and that martyrdom goes on today, in more places and situations than we care to acknowledge. Perhaps Pope Francis said it best, recently calling Christian persecution… Continue reading On the Nightstand: December 2015
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On the Nightstand: November 2015
OK, seriously, how do you not pick up a book with this title? I preordered mine back in July when I met author Maria Morera Johnson and we had an immediate mind melt about the way we both love the saints. This book is part memoir, part a sharing of how women, canonized or otherwise, influence… Continue reading On the Nightstand: November 2015
On the Nightstand: October 2015
As some of you know, I’m part of a looseknit spiritual group of wonderful women in my area called Churchwomen of a Certain Age. (Most of us are 50 or older, though we’ve allowed a young’un or two in as well.) I didn’t know any of these women when they were in their twenties or… Continue reading On the Nightstand: October 2015
On the Nightstand: September 2015
A dear friend and I met when I was on a team for some sessions to help people discerning a return to Catholicism. Since that time, she’s married in the Church, and she and her husband have a beautiful baby girl. She once told me that one of the key motivators for her return was… Continue reading On the Nightstand: September 2015