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Tag: Mary

Speaking to the Soul: Almost There

March 13, 2016 1 Comment

Our Lenten Journey isn’t over yet, but the time is short. Make final preparations!

Speaking to the Soul: Mom

January 17, 2016 No Comments

In these times of turmoil in both the world and the church, I don’t think it is a bad thing to believe in a God-made-flesh who we can stand up to and argue with.

Speaking to the Soul: Time, The Magic Ingredient

December 20, 2015 No Comments

As surely as there was something wonderful growing inside of Mary and Elizabeth, there is something wonderful growing inside of you too.

Speaking to the Soul: The Rebel Mary

December 18, 2015 No Comments

Mary the rebel, the righteous warrior with peace as her shield, sings a song of defiance, liberation, and deliverance. She lifts her hands and heart to God, and calls us to join in, too. Free to sing out with her our hopes for a world remade and repaired by justice.

Speaking to the Soul: Thanks, Mom

December 15, 2015 No Comments

So, what kind of a mother was Mary? How did she mother? And what can we learn from her, to draw closer to her Son?

Speaking to the Soul: Theotokos

August 15, 2015 5 Comments

Beneath your compassion we take refuge Theotokos Our petitions do not de- spise in time of trouble but from danger rescue us,  Only Holy, on- ly

At the Center of the Heart

August 14, 2014 No Comments

O God, who have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his

We need the real Mary

August 15, 2013 4 Comments

Feast Day of St. Mary the Virgin It is astounding the distortion that surrounds the figure of Jesus’ mother. She has, through the centuries, been

How to be in the presence of Jesus

July 24, 2013 1 Comment

by Deirdre Good Text: Beginning to Pray an experience with a Russian woman whom he visited in a nursing home before she died at the