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On Grace and Trying to Be Good Enough: A Review of Feathered Filigree By Bailey Cornelius, Lead Project Manager I am, by nature, a transactional human. I often forget and must forcibly remind myself to engage in normal human pleasantries. Case in point: when I taught high school freshmen, I would forget to introduce myself […]
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September is an in-between month. Here in Florida, it doesn’t arrive with that telltale sweater-weather or the lovely changing foliage you’d find further north (oh, how I wish). It is still very hot, and it is still hurricane season (yikes). The ocean is warm, and we watch the tropics, praying every little swirl on the radar minds its own business.
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As a sinless model of faith, Mary knew better than anyone how to petition for others, and how to make her whole life on Earth a prayer to God. What some may not fully realize when contemplating her life is that she also had to quietly live with the acceptance of what would eventually happen to her Son.
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It may seem mundane, but one of the greatest gifts God gave us is our language. Our written word, the way we communicate through something as simple as body language, the way a picture can speak a thousand words in its depiction of an event—all of it carries weight.
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Growing up during the height of the Space Race, Jones recalled in a recent interview on our podcast, A Resounding Yes!, how seriously the whole country followed American space missions. Magazine covers and live television broadcasts documented launches through splashdowns. Teachers paused their regular lessons and rolled televisions into classrooms so students could watch history unfold.
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I may have been several hundred miles away in Florida, but thanks to a steady stream of photos, videos, and updates from Macon, I was able to follow along as a group of Dominican friars, with banjos in tow, helped celebrate the launch of a Catholic literary and cultural magazine.
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Witnessing someone become a saint is a breathtaking experience. In my lifetime, it has been exciting and comforting to see people who lived closer and closer to my time being canonized. Holiness is not being left behind in the past—it is being made ever-present now.
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A nearly three-thousand-year-old epic has sparked renewed interest among modern readers with the release of this year’s summer blockbuster The Odyssey. First orated in front of live audiences, then written down into a long-form poem and subsequently translated, novelized, and developed across other mediums, there’s no shortage of forms that the Odyssey—like Athena within the story—has shape-shifted into.
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In adoration last week, I noticed Fruit Loops scattered on the floor under the pew in front of me. I started fretting over them—where did they come from? A child must have dropped them earlier in the day. How long had they been there?
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