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Preparing Our Hearts and Our Homes for Christmas
I love Christmas, and honestly, I love the preparation of Christmas — at least I love it when I don’t feel the pressure of time slipping away before I’m ready! Every year, Joy Sunday is a big day for us. We get our Christmas tree, blast Christmas music as decorate the house, and get everything ready to celebrate BIG with our family and guests who come to visit over the holidays. It’s a lovely tradition and we all look forward to it. This year was a little different. We have two children away at school and there was a packed Gaudete Sunday weekend with end of semester activities. Instead of…
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Letting Go of the World’s Ideas of Perfection
“I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God’s idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.” ~Caryll Houselander~ Letting go of our false ideas of “perfect” might be the most difficult thing about being a human being — for many it is a life-long struggle to let go of what the world is saying we ought to be, and…
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A Saint is a Sinner Who Loves
“A Saint is a Sinner Who Loves; It’s that Simple. Catherine Doherty Right now, I’m in the midst of a little Advent Retreat, but I wanted to share this quote I came across in my reading this past week. It is not to be misunderstood as some sort of license to keep on sinning — but rather, it is meant to be encouragement to never give up trying to LOVE with all that is in you. It is in loving others, that we can become better than we once were. It is loving that our cold hearts of stone can be melted and molded into the beautiful, life-giving hearts that…
