This month, I'm the featured contributor over at My Daily Visitor, a publication of Our Sunday Vistor. Every day you can find a brief reflection on the day's ...
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How are you waiting today? Are you rushing from store to store trying to finish up your shopping? Are you preparing food for a big family dinner? Are you ...
Chances are that right about now the Christmas season is getting the best of you. At least that's how it's going at my house. Just last night I suggested to my ...
My most recent Life Lines column, running in Catholic New York and The Catholic Spirit this month:
I don’t know about you, but I tend to approach my prayer ...
About two weeks ago, I had to go for a CT-arterial scan due to a family history of heart disease and an echocardiogram that showed the possibility of a dilated ...
I was sitting in my office this afternoon, trying to ignore the constant buzzing, droning sound of the neighbor's leaf blower, when I remembered a section of ...
Do you need something to take you away from all the partisan sparring? A little spiritual lift to whoosh through your soul like a cleansing breeze? A bit of ...
Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome/By Mary DeTurris PoustHappy Feast of St. Teresa of Avila. I have some of her words of wisdom posted ...
I always get to the 5:45 a.m. yoga class at least 10 minutes early, better to settle in and spend a little time in silence before the studio fills up. ...
We're just days away from the start of the Year of Faith, a time of renewal, prayer, and study for Catholics around the world.Pope Benedict XVI has specifically ...
My other new book is nearing its release date, and I realized this morning that I've been kind of quiet about it. I've been so caught up in so many other ...
I received an unexpected email yesterday from an Alabama parish telling me the pastor had "placed a large order" for copies of my Complete Idiot's Guide to the ...
Today I am grateful for so many seemingly ordinary things....For rain pouring down and the sound it makes as it hits the roof and drips from tree branches...For ...
This Monday morning got off to a hectic and somewhat frustrating start. Nothing major, just the usual mayhem with a couple of extra inconveniences added in. But ...
I have a bunch of projects in the works right now that, well, to be perfectly honest, scare the crap out of me. We're all friends here. I can be honest, ...
Missionaries of Charity in Rome. Copyright Mary DeTurris Poust, Rome 2010.On this feast day for Blessed Mother Teresa, I got to thinking about Mother Teresa ...
Taken at 4:45 a.m. in my backyardI couldn't sleep last night, so at around 4 a.m. I came downstairs to sit by the window and stare at the moon. Weird? Perhaps. ...
This essay originally appeared at the Catholic portal of Patheos.com.
By Mary DeTurris Poust
When I took my first yoga class more than thirty years ago, I was ...
I love this song by Laura Story. (If you're my Facebook friend, you've probably seen me post it over there at least once in recent months.) I needed to hear it ...
From my post at OSV Daily Take today. Follow the link at the end of this post to leave a comment and enter the book giveaway.Paula Huston’s beautiful new book, ...
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