A Parish Catechist Reflects

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Cold rainy days and God I am watching the rain fall on this cold June morning in my Seattle-area suburb. The heat should have been turned off a month ago. A week or so ago, I put away my space heaters that I use when I wa…

Our faith blogger is also an "arts and crafts" person. Now combined faith blogging and the arts-and-crafts option for you to order a church-style prayer stand. Set up the ambiance of church at your home! Super!

Bring Church Home: Set of Prayer Candles We are thrilled to now offer church candle stands for you to have at home. Lighting candles in church is a popular way to be prayerful. Now is your chance to bring that prayerful candle sentiment h…

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Dear Hermitage: ‘Faith Advice’ Column Our faith blog is where we provide faith insights. While we often select the topics for our blog posts, we also welcome public inquiries for topics to cover in our blog posts. “I am wondering…

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People of faith, becoming Easter people…. When I taught baptism preparation classes for parents and godparents, talking about baptism inherently required talking about Adam and Eve and “The Fall.” When we are baptized, we are g…

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“Be not afraid” We church goers like to think of ourselves as faithful people. If one spends enough time in church, one is bound to hear about trusting in God. “Bring all of your challenges to God.” I …

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Book Review: The Lost Mary, Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus When I happened upon a blurb about this recently-published book, I checked to see if my local library has it. I was pleased to find out they had a copy and I checked it out. In amongst my other rea…

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Symbolism in the Gospel of Mark In my Master’s in Theology program, we are reading the Gospel of Mark this week. Mark is thought to have been the first of the four canonical gospels to have been written – probably in …

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Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) My prayer life in recent years began with a gifted period of contemplative prayer (as told here). Hands-down, my two favorite pray-ers are the contemplative mys…

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Pondering religious imagination…. I was recently given Frank J. Cunningham’s Vesper Time: The Spiritual Practice of Growing Older. Early in the book, he mentions “The Catholic Imagination.” I am intrigued by the p…

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Book Review: The Music of Silence Book: The Music of Silence I somehow keep encountering Benedictine spirituality. The first monastery I ever visited was Westminster Abbey in Mission, B.C. [I was four and had just recently been bap…