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Maria entered the Salesian order in her early twenties, desiring to do something dramatic for God. She wanted to travel to far places, bring Christ to the ends of the world, and minister to lepers. The first World War broke out, however, and her plans were put on pause. She was trained as a Red Cross nurse and ministered to soldiers on the front lines.
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I was hooked from the get-go. I read it during lunch breaks, over dinner, after walking the dog, while waiting for the girls to get ready for brunch. I carried it from room to room, tucked it into my purse—always looking for a spare moment to squeeze in one more chapter.
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It is quite fitting that Pope Leo XIV would declare Newman a Doctor of the Church, as Pope Leo XIII was the pontiff who named Newman a cardinal back in 1879.
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Directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer, Reagan), Soul on Fire tells the miraculous true story of John O’Leary, who was just nine years old when a gasoline explosion left him with burns covering 100% of his body. His chances of survival were slim to none, but through the love of his family, the support of his community, some good old-fashioned St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and his own will to live, John beat the odds and survived.
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by Rietta Parker, Contributing Writer
A crumbling marriage. A priest who agrees to pray as he contemplates the ribbon that bound the couple as one on their wedding day. Mary’s love for her children.
This is the story of how the devotion to Our Lady as Mary, Undoer of Knots, originated in the 1600s. In Augsburg, Germany, a married couple, Wolfgang Langenmantel and Sophia Rentz, were contemplating divorce when Wolfgang went to Father Jakob Rem for spiritual counsel. Father Rem took the couple’s wedding ribbon and prayed with them to Our Lady to smooth out the knots of their marriage. A month later, the couple was able to fully reconcile and lived a long life together.
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by Elizabeth Hamonko, Writer
Think about what you last prayed for.
The majority of us start out our prayer life asking for tangible, immediate things. Perhaps it’s a new toy or a new job, depending on whether you grew up in the faith or converted as an adult.
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by Franci Revel Eckensberger
Mary’s life was one long yes to God–and a resounding yes, at that. Today, August 15, we honor that lifelong fiat with the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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by Rietta Parker, Contributing Writer
Back in 2022, I was living with my husband in an apartment complex five minutes away from a perpetual adoration chapel. One afternoon there, I started meditating on that day’s gospel acclamation.
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by Marge Hynes, Writer
It started, as many movies do, with popcorn and soda in the buttery, slightly sticky comfort of Studio Movie Grill in Seminole, Florida. We were, per usual, running late, having already missed the first ten minutes.
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by Marge Hynes, Writer
The Ritual is billed as a drama-horror-thriller. Looking beyond the suspense and the demonic possession it’s based on, I had one simple question: Did it feel genuinely true to our faith and the reality of evil?
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