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By Emily Cavins   I recall our goddaughter, Mary, bouncing excitedly up to us several weeks after her First Communion, to announce she had just received her fifth Communion. She was counting [...]

By Emily Cavins   Who would have thought that I would have been handed a three-month (and counting) sabbatical? Most often, when someone is offered the luxury of time off, a lot of planning [...]

By Lynda MacFarland   Most of us don’t have any true enemies who we feel great animosity towards and who feel the same toward us. Most of us don’t have to worry about someone [...]

By: Caralyn   Well, here we are. I’m going to be honest; it’s incredibly strange to be writing this article today: on April 13, trying to imagine where we’ll be a month from now, on May 13 — [...]

By Melanie Rigney   I’m the oldest daughter of an oldest daughter of an oldest daughter. I laugh and tell people who ask why I didn’t have children that that line of hyper-responsible, [...]

By Hilary Scheppers Hopping the fence is the wrong way to enter the swimming pool, wouldn’t you agree? But I did enter it that way once before. I climbed over the chain-link fence and dropped [...]

By Sharon Wilson I love bread. Flatbread, french bread, banana bread or pita bread, you name it, I’ll eat it! I crave just about any type of bread, and I love it plain, sweet or savory. I [...]

By Carol Younger Reading the Easter Gospel Scripture, the first thing that I saw was many repetitions of the word saw. Very early, in the garden shrouded in darkness before full daybreak, Mary of [...]

By Lucy Johnson No Fooling This year, I resolve… Perhaps it’s due to my age and stage in life, or maybe it’s because my resolutions aim for spiritual growth, but I’ve been keeping the New Year’s [...]

By Kristin Molitor     I’ve been a lifelong lover of Jesus, and yet on more days than I’d care to admit, I lose sight of Him by focusing more on the next thing instead of His loving [...]