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A record number of over 10,000 faithful are registered to participate in this tradition of honoring Christ and Our Lady with a 22-mile pilgrimage from the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, WI, to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion. The Shrine is the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States. We wrote about the apparition’s seer Adele Brice a few months back on this blog—her cause for canonization was recently opened by the Most Reverend David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay. Servant of God Adele Brice devoted her life to traveling on foot as far as fifty miles through the Wisconsin wilderness to catechize families and children regardless of the weather, heeding the instructions to evangelize given to her by Our Lady of Champion.
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“You can’t study the life of a Christian mystic for very long before you find yourself back in the Church,” Jenny duBay recently told Paloma & Fig. She would know, having immersed herself in Catherine’s writings and the landscape of Siena itself to write World Between Worlds, a lush and sprawling novel of the saint’s early life.
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Scripture is like a river, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.
—Pope St. Gregory
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June 1979: Karol Wojtyła returns for the first time to his home country as Pope John Paul II. He is greeted by millions in Kraków, a city living under a communist regime that kept a tight hold on public religious expression. Tens of millions more hear him on the television and the radio.
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Before she became something of a “lost Catholic classic,” Görres was a woman who loved the Church enough to speak honestly about her.
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There are two main passages in the New Testament where Jesus teaches us how to pray: Matthew 6: 9-13 when he gives us the “Our Father,” a structured, vocal prayer, and the Agony in the Garden. In the example of the Agony in the Garden, one could say that Jesus does not need to pray in this way—He is God. He could have very well prayed or processed what would happen next in private without involving the disciples. Instead we have this demonstrative and ceremonious example of mental prayer, spoken aloud for our benefit.
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When I hear there’s a new The Lord of the Rings movie in the works, I get just a wee bit protective (never mind my long-standing argument that there are no good sequels . . . or at least, very few). Middle-earth is special for so many of us, especially those who grew up tucked away in the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “sub-creation.”
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In these last few days of the Lenten season, the Gospel readings guide us through Christ’s final moments before His Passion and death. During this time, we are encouraged to recommit ourselves to fasting, prayer, and almsgiving as a way of drawing nearer to Jesus as His earthly ministry comes to a close.
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Lent has always been a kind of ascent. The Church, in her wisdom, gives us forty days, echoing Moses on the mountain, Elijah in the wilderness, and Christ in the desert. These are not accidental parallels. They remind us that transformation takes time and that encounter with God is often preceded by endurance.
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At the foundation of the security we want to give our children is a security we ourselves must first receive, cultivate, and trust—and that security bears the name and face of Jesus, “God with us.”
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