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How to Embrace Suffering Like Blessed Chiara Badano
“Embraced pain makes one free.”
This quote, written in italics under a radiant, smiling face on a holy card, has followed me for seven years. The countenance of the woman...
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Lessons from an Avocado Seed
Sunlight filtered through pine trees onto the picnic table as eggs sizzled on our George Foreman grill. While I chopped avocados, I turned to see my friend clasping a...
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What St. Thérèse is Teaching Me About Intercessory Prayer
Wetness oozed from above and below me as my worn-out galoshes sloshed across a narrow footbridge. All I could see directly in front of me was a veil of...
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Are You Vaccinated? I’m Looking for a Cure
On a bustling Saturday morning, I found myself the next lucky candidate to be received by a cashier at our local supermarket. Having had too many verbal wrestling matches...
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It’s Time to Go Back to the Well
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him...