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What Will You Be? Discerning Your Vocation

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by Tara K.E. Brelinsky “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How many times have you asked a child that question? Or maybe you’ve asked a new high school graduate, “What are you going to do now?” I’ve heard people pose those questions countless times to my eight children. And I have […]

Extraordinary Ordinary: Turning Your Life Into A Prayer

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By Tara K. E. Brelinsky Fingering my rosary beads, I led the morning’s prayers. It was Thursday, so we meditated on the Luminous Mysteries. Of course, as the parent at a table full of children, meditating generally means battling to maintain some semblance of focus while ignoring toddler antics, spilled milk, and the day’s growing […]

Planting the Seed of the Culture of Life-Part 4

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by Rob Agnelli In this last installment of this series on building a Culture of Life, we will examine the third root of the Culture of Death along with its antidote. St. John Paul II identifies the third root as individualism. This particular root is especially prevalent in our American culture, one in which we […]

A Story Can Transform Your Life: The First Friday Devotion

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by Tara K. E. Brelinsky Sometimes something as simple as a story can transform your life. Though I can’t recall how I came across (then seminarian, now priest in the Diocese of Raleigh) Fr. Philip Johnson’s story about the First Friday devotion, I won’t soon forget the details of it because that story changed my life. […]

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