This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Victoria Ryan’s book, “I’m Listening: Praying with Art and Story.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! A unique meditation that engages your “right brain” attributes of color, emotion, and imagination to discover God’s fingerprints all over your daily life.
Intermission
Intermission “Come to me, all you who labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 Today’s gospel about the 10 lepers is well known to Catholics. Only one, the foreigner (a Samaritan), realizing he was cleansed, came back to thank Jesus. I can’t imagine living […]
Plaster and Soul
Plaster and Soul It’s October 1st, and the feast day of our dear St. Therese of Lisieux is upon us. As I sat down to compose my small contribution to the illustrious works that have already been written about her, I felt confident that I could write the obligatory words, […]
The Story Behind the CWG Book Blasts
Michael Fraley explains the benefits of participating in the monthly CWG Book Blast.
Flammable
Flammable Our words and actions matter to others. When the natives in Malta took care of Paul and companions, they had no idea of the recent hardships at sea or the blessings they would receive when the chief’s father and many others were cured of illness. Can we say we […]
A Truncated Fall
For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. – Ecclesiastes 4:10 (RSVCE) After a 500-mile trip through several states, I at last drove over the familiar unpaved roads bordered by towering birches […]
Thickets
Thickets are the middle stage of nature’s marvelous development of a forest. From a clear and open space, seeds of grasses, weeds and wildflowers take root and create a meadow that soon fosters shrubs and small trees. Eventually, through a process of change that means the dying of some to […]
A Committed Heart
Kimberly Novak reflects on the commitment of Jesus made perfect without sin. A committed heart finds a way, whereas an un-committed heart makes excuses. This month we celebrate the Precious Blood of Jesus, an unblemished promise poured out to forgive sins. My relationship with God tells me that this is […]
CWG Book Blast! “Peace in Pregnancy: Devotions for the Expectant Mother, by Kathryn Anne Casey
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Kathryn Casey’s book, “Peace in Pregnancy: Devotions for the Expectant Mother.” It has an Imprimatur from Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes and a Nihil Obstat from Msgr. Michael Heintz, Ph.D. Pregnancy is full of challenges, but peace is still possible. Summary: Peace in […]
Even Scraps, Received in Faith, Bring Healing
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” She […]