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Having recognized our great need for a savior during the first half of Great Lent, the second half of the season calls us to meditate up on God’s role in our salvation. Here are some practical ways to maintain that focus.
A few ideas on keeping the little ones (and you) happy in church, with a request for your own additions to the list.
A friendly reminder that Christ embraced our human nature so much as to take it on for himself.
The short answer is, we do, it’s just not in the way you would think.
We are all aware of the Latin Catholic Church but how many of us realize there is a whole lot more to Catholicism?
Here are some common (but rarely discussed) misconceptions that you may want to know about the Byzantine Catholic church.
Are you a Byzantine-curious Roman Catholic? This two-part series might help!
Dear Mothers, I want to tell you something: you are not enough.
Brittany Balke examines the Eastern approach to the Feast of the Death and Assumption of Mary and the richness it provides for her spiritual life.
There are a lot of ideas going around about why to wear a chapel veil, some better than others. It takes a little searching out to see what the Church Fathers said about St. Paul’s exhortation, but their words are well worth the search.
As she ponders the aging process, Brittany Balke asks the question, “What is the most important thing to do before I die?”
Even though I’ve tried to integrate the Jesus prayer into my spiritual life prior to this, it never really stuck. It was only with reading The Way of a Pilgrim, a Russian spiritual classic about the Jesus prayer, that I started to have an idea of how this prayer should really be applied in my life, and suddenly I’m wondering why I didn’t do this in the first place.
Our celebration of the Annunciation and of Akathistos Saturday reminds us of Mary’s humble approach to conception. Do we follow Mary’s example?
Meet Brittany Balke, our new contributor. She will be writing about Eastern Catholicism and her life as a Byzantine mom.