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As a praise and worship leader in my diocese serving at retreats, LifeTeen events, and conferences, I often come back to the same question: How do we reach young Catholics in a world of endless scrolling, burnout, and spiritual noise? “Corpus Christi,” a song from Le Concorde’s upcoming album, Second Mansions, offers one answer: Meet […]
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Pope Francis has returned home to Christ at 88 years old. After months of illness, his death came on Easter Monday, April 21st, 2025, less than a day after greeting the faithful at St. Peter’s Square for Easter.
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The Ordinary Garden: Approaching Easter with St. Thérèse of Lisieux By Franci Revel Eckensberger, Lead Editor St. Thérèse of Lisieux, known as the Little Flower, was a French Carmelite nun. She died in 1897 at the age of 24, leaving behind a wealth of writings and an influential spirituality of the everyday, which she called […]
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In his new book, To Heights and unto Depths, Father John Nepil doesn’t just recount a month-long trek on the Colorado Trail. Across 217 pages, he takes you on a journey through the Catholic faith and the gift that it is to be human. With each step, he calls readers to look around, breathe deep, […]
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St. Faustina Kowalska, the Polish nun and mystic known as the Apostle of Divine Mercy, left behind a remarkable spiritual legacy in her Diary, where she recorded her profound encounters with Jesus. Her writings emphasize the transformative power of suffering—a theme central to Christian spirituality. For St. Faustina, suffering was not merely an affliction to […]
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Blessed Carlo Acutis: 1991-2006Feast Day: October 12 Together, our saints compose a sprawling portrait of devotion and purpose across time and space, each situated in their own unique context. As we wade through an oversaturated, overstimulating modern environment, the crosses we bear often look a little different than those of centuries past–naturally, many Catholics wait […]
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If you’ve ever thought, “No way could I be a saint,” you’re in good company—so did St. Moses the Black (also known as Moses the Strong, Abba Moses the Robber, or Moses the Ethiopian). He was a feared gang leader, a thief, and a fugitive. But through radical conversion, he became one of the Church’s […]
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From Pain to Purpose: 8 Saints on the Joy of Suffering By Marge Hynes, Writer The road of faith is rarely straight. It twists, it falters, and it leads us into the desert. Maybe you’ve been there—tested in the wilderness like Jesus, tempted and tried. But then, a moment of grace arrives—a whisper, a revelation—pulling […]
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Fr. Dave Pivonka begins the film Sign of Contradiction by saying that St. Francis has to be more than just a birdbath. My maternal great-grandfather was named Francis, presumably named for someone before him who was named for St. Francis. My mother was named the feminine variant, Frances, and then passed the name onto me. […]
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The original fire in Joelle Maryn’s life was not a metaphor. When she was six years old, her family suffered a house fire that took the life of her sister. This unspeakable trauma rattled her entire family, but it swallowed her father whole. Alcohol and a lifelong, consuming sense of guilt fueled his poor treatment […]
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