Many years ago, when my husband, Dennis, and I attended a Marriage Encounter weekend, one phrase from the experience stuck like glue: “Make a decision to love.” ...
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If you spend any serious amount of time with Scripture, you can’t help but take to heart that there are some absolutes when it comes to our call and ...
Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, our home was adorned with a large portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The same one hung in my grandmother’s home. Back in ...
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life.
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers of babies not ...
When I was leaving my gynecologist’s office recently, I exited the building with a younger couple leaving the same practice. I guessed that they likely were ...
A few years ago, I was asked to write an essay for the Soul Seeing column that appears regularly in the National Catholic Reporter. That essay turned into a ...
I’ve been in desperate need of some grace these days. So much so, that I pulled a tarnished silver necklace bearing the word “GRACE” out of my jewelry box and ...
Yesterday I was doing one of my regular appearances on the Morning Air Show on Relevant Radio and was scheduled to talk about Valentine's Day, marriage, and ...
So everyone is talking about romance and love as Valentine's Day approaches, but what about the other 364 days a year? Are we making time for romance -- or at ...
Pope Francis makes an impromptu visit to an immigrant settlement on the outskirts of Rome. This video is so beautiful it made me cry. (more…)
It's not too late! If you start right now, you and your spouse can participate in a virtual seven-day marriage retreat that will take you right up to ...
My new favorite song, discovered on The Coffee House on Sirius/XM, for your Music Monday listening pleasure. Simple, beautiful, spot on. This one goes out to ...
Marriage is hard, even under the best of circumstances. Add in some problems, and marriage can feel beyond hard, maybe impossible, as evidenced by the soaring ...
A little musical inspiration on this first friday of March and first friday of Lent. I love this song, and when I heard it again yesterday as I was driving kids ...
Grace can be hard to put your finger on, like trying to grab at fog or hold onto a breeze. I remember even back when I was writing The Complete Idiot's Guide to ...
When you plant a tree
every leaf that grows will tell you,
what you sow will bear fruit.
So if you have any sense, my friend
don't plant anything but love,
you ...
"From a spiritual standpoint what I try and do as a physician is that even if I can’t cure the situation, even if I can’t cure the condition, if even I can’t ...
Have you ever felt the urge to do something totally spontaneous and generous for someone but then pulled back at the last minute for any number of "logical" ...
I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day, never have been. Not sure why. I guess it's mainly due to the commercial craziness of it and the push from retailers to give ...
I was going to put up an anniversary post today to mark the fifth birthday of Not Strictly Spiritual. And then a Facebook friend posted the video below, and I ...
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