Category Archives: Hope

A Treasured Acquaintance

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”  On the contrary, those parts of the body…

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How to Live and Die in Christ

For the past 25 years, Mary Shinar has shown me how to live with her heart focused on and resting in Jesus. She was my high school boyfriend’s mother. And…

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A Great Cloud….and a Great Crowd

“Write about a person you knew personally who had an influence on your faith.” I have never been fond of “choose just one” scenarios. Even simple icebreaker questions like “What’s…

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The Communion of Saints

The ACNA is a fairly small world, which means that many of you were shocked to hear the news that 50-year-old Fr. Thomas McKenzie and his 22-year-old daughter were killed…

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Ordinary Time as Holy Time

Imagine a Carmelite monastery in 17th-century Paris, France. Monks set about their daily task of ora et labora—prayer and work. Deep in a kitchen, hands buried in a basin of soapy…

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