tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31338062024-03-19T02:00:31.308-05:00Amy Welborn's Very First BlogAmy Welborn's Original Blog.Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comBlogger5008125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-12814843533325971892024-03-19T02:00:00.000-05:002024-03-19T02:00:00.132-05:00St. Joseph - March 19<p> <em style="text-align: center;">In him the Old Testament finds its fitting close. He brought the noble line of patriarchs and prophets to its promised fulfillment. What the divine goodness had offered as a promise to them, he held in his arms. -<a href="http://www.universalis.com/USA/20170320/readings.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> from a homily of St. Bernardine of Siena. </a></em></p><p>Some images for you, first a vintage holy card from the <a href="https://www.saint-joseph.org/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shrine of St. Joseph in Montreal</a> that interests me because it predates the construction of the large basilica:<br /><img alt="" class="wp-image-8862 aligncenter" height="414" src="http://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/stjoseph2.jpg" title="" width="240" /><br /><br />From the Oratory of <a href="http://www.saint-joseph.org/en_1001_index.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">St. Joseph in Montreal. </a><br />I just love the blues on the card above and the not-quite Art-Noveauishness of it.<br /><img alt="" class="wp-image-8857 aligncenter" height="442" src="http://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/stjoseph.jpg" title="" width="240" /><br /><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="323" src="http://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/dsc_1516.jpg" width="487" /><br /><br /><em>At the shrine featured in the vintage holy cards. Summer 2011. </em><br />The sign says "Reserved for pilgrims climbing on their knees."</p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-12350525237093965192024-03-18T01:00:00.001-05:002024-03-18T01:00:00.133-05:00First Communion Class<p> To receive Jesus in Holy Communion is to enter into a lifelong friendship with him.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this beautifully illustrated book by Ann Engelhart, Amy Welborn introduces Pope Benedict's profound yet simple answers to various questions put to him by children in Rome who had recently made their First Holy Communion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pope Benedict's answers, and the children's wonderful questions concerning this very important spiritual occasion in their young lives, provide inspiring text for this beautiful gift book for First Communion.</p><p><a href="https://www.ignatius.com/Friendship-with-Jesus-P3068.aspx" target="_blank"><i>Friendship with Jesus </i>by Amy Welborn, published by Ignatius Press</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0kdub2j5jQ8/YKEbuvgxcNI/AAAAAAABGo0/-TTHD9iRfq0Ge3bUkIvfEgqlYlHdF_vRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s409/friendship-with-jesus-eucharistic-adoration.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="409" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0kdub2j5jQ8/YKEbuvgxcNI/AAAAAAABGo0/-TTHD9iRfq0Ge3bUkIvfEgqlYlHdF_vRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/friendship-with-jesus-eucharistic-adoration.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkvuWo2IXug/YKEbutX0WUI/AAAAAAABGow/Jx50C1B7wowMV48bbcJOFwm_oOiq8Mq0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/friendship-with-jesus-jesus-washing-feet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dkvuWo2IXug/YKEbutX0WUI/AAAAAAABGow/Jx50C1B7wowMV48bbcJOFwm_oOiq8Mq0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/friendship-with-jesus-jesus-washing-feet.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OZPujJxZ04M/YKEburtbIlI/AAAAAAABGos/Ja9B1bXGvfc818-NDVlq_x1AbTtUnzEPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s312/friendship_with_jesus-_children.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="312" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OZPujJxZ04M/YKEburtbIlI/AAAAAAABGos/Ja9B1bXGvfc818-NDVlq_x1AbTtUnzEPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/friendship_with_jesus-_children.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-49737887925865413982024-03-17T01:30:00.001-05:002024-03-17T01:30:00.160-05:00St. Patrick's Day - March 17<p> <a data-mce-href="http://www.loyolapress.com/saints-stories-for-kids.htm?cId=77222" href="http://www.loyolapress.com/saints-stories-for-kids.htm?cId=77222" style="color: #00aadc; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00aadc;">From </span><em>The Loyola Kids' Book of Saints</em></a><span style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;"> by Amy Welborn</span></p><div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZI7W9-SnbKg/W2iC_JucEGI/AAAAAAAAjEU/bP_dTlNG8X0dz2gikryGRN_cLCktuv4wQCPcBGAYYCw/s268/saints%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="188" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZI7W9-SnbKg/W2iC_JucEGI/AAAAAAAAjEU/bP_dTlNG8X0dz2gikryGRN_cLCktuv4wQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/saints%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background: rgb(233, 239, 243); border-left: 2px solid rgb(135, 166, 188); color: #4f748e; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin: 8px 0px 24px; padding: 16px; quotes: none;"><div style="margin-bottom: 24px;">How do you teach a classroom that's as big as a whole country? How do you teach a whole country about God?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 24px;">St. Patrick's classroom was the whole country of Ireland and his lesson was the good news of Jesus Christ. How in the world did he do it? Well, it was only possible because he depended totally on God.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 24px;">....</div><div style="margin-bottom: 24px;">God gave Patrick the courage to speak, even when Patrick was in danger of being hurt by pagan priests who didn't want to lose their power over the people.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 24px;">Patrick's most famous prayer shows us how close he was to God. It's called “St. Patrick's Breastplate.” A breastplate is the piece of armor that protects a soldier's heart from harm.</div><i>Christ with me, Christ before me,<br />Christ behind me, Christ within me,<br />Christ beneath me, Christ above me,<br />Christ at my right, Christ at my left.</i></blockquote><br /><br /> <strong>I. Saints are People Who Love Children</strong> St. Nicholas,St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla<br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>Saints Are People Who Love Their Families</strong> St. Monica,St. Cyril and St. Methodius, St. Therese of Lisieux,Blessed Frederic Ozanam,<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Surprise Others</strong>St. Simeon Stylites,St. Celestine V,St. Joan of Arc,St. Catherine of Siena<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Create</strong> St. Hildegard of Bingen,Blessed Fra Angelico,St. John of the Cross,Blessed Miguel Pro<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Teach Us New Ways to Pray</strong> St. Benedict,St. Dominic de Guzman,St. Teresa of Avila,St. Louis de Monfort<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who See Beyond the Everyday</strong> St. Juan Diego, St. Frances of Rome, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Blessed Padre Pio<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Travel From Home</strong> St. Boniface, St. Peter Claver, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis Solano, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Are Strong Leaders</strong> St. Helena, St. Leo the Great, St. Wenceslaus, St. John Neumann<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Tell The Truth</strong> St. Polycarp, St. Thomas Becket, St. Thomas More, Blessed Titus Brandsma<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Help Us Understand God</strong> St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Jerome, St. Patrick, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Edith Stein<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Change Their Lives for God</strong> St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Camillus de Lellis, St. Katharine Drexel<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Are Brave</strong> St. Perpetua and St. Felicity, St. George, St. Margaret Clitherow, St. Isaac Jogues, The Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, St. Maximilian Kolbe<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Help the Poor and Sick</strong> St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Martin de Porres, Blessed Joseph de Veuster<br /><br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Help In Ordinary Ways</strong> St. Christopher, St. Blaise, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Bernard of Montjoux<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0px;"> <strong>Saints Are People Who Come From All Over the World</strong> Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Paul Miki, Blessed Peter To Rot, Blessed Maria Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta</div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-65571113690076654992024-03-16T01:00:00.001-05:002024-03-16T01:00:00.248-05:00Gift for New Catholics<p> <i>The Words We Pray by Amy Welborn </i>is a collection of short essays that reflect on the meaning of traditional Catholic prayers, tying together history, theology, spirituality, and personal devotion.</p><br /><a href="http://www.amywelborn.com/wordswepray.html" target="_blank">Read more about it here.</a><br /><blockquote><em>The monks raised their voices in hope at the end of each phrase, and then paused a great pause in between, letting the hope rise and then settle back into their hearts. My own heart rushed, unbidden by me, uncontrolled, right into those pauses and joined the prayer. A prayer written by a eleventh-century bedridden brother, chanted by monks in the middle of Georgia, and joined by me and the silent folk scattered in the pews around me, each with his or her own reasons to beg the Virgin for her prayers.</em><br /><em>And we weren’t the only ones joined in that prayer. With us was a great throng of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2012/05/amy-welborn-on-shusako-endo.html" rel="autointext" target="_blank" title="Amy Welborn on Shusako Endo">other Christians</a> who had prayed it over the centuries, and who are praying it at this very moment.</em><br /><em>My days as a prayer snob were over.</em></blockquote><br />It would be a great resource for inquirers into the Catholic faith.<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8meNdIG-zhc/VbuHG3is0MI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/B_yRjgS4QawVUVj__0hpneAHs1pSqSxIwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/wordswepray.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="136" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8meNdIG-zhc/VbuHG3is0MI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/B_yRjgS4QawVUVj__0hpneAHs1pSqSxIwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/wordswepray.jpg" /></a></div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-78286651255886147002024-03-15T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-15T00:30:00.133-05:00Stations of the Cross booklet for Lent<p> </p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.avemariapress.com/author/210/Michael-Dubruiel/" href="https://www.avemariapress.com/product/1-59471-128-3/John-Paul-IIs-Biblical-Way-of-the-Cross/">You can get <i>John Paul II's Biblical Way of the Cross by Michael Dubruiel and Amy Welborn</i> here. </a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></div><blockquote style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><i>In 1991, Pope John Paul II introduced a new Bible-based interpretation of the Stations of the Cross. This devotional guide invites readers to prayerfully walk in solidarity with Jesus on his agonizing way of the cross—from his last torturous moments in the Garden of Gethsemane to his death and burial.</i></blockquote><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></div><blockquote style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><i>Now with full-color station images from previously unpublished paintings by Michael O'Brien, this booklet creates an ideal resource for individual or group devotional use, particularly during the Lenten season.</i></blockquote><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", "bitstream charter", times, serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 19px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.avemariapress.com/product/1-59471-128-3/John-Paul-IIs-Biblical-Way-of-the-Cross/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""michael Dubruiel"" border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DzlyUGWeCbE/VpLcgYI5MAI/AAAAAAAAGLY/zo_iIkk-MQgUJJR-Ua9dxtcXd913uf-dQCPcB/s320/amy-welborn8.jpg" title=""michael Dubruiel"" width="206" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-40428576079174438292024-03-14T01:00:00.000-05:002024-03-14T01:00:00.140-05:00Liturgical Year for Kids<p> <a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/loyola-kids-book-of-seasons-feasts-celebrations" target="_blank"> New From Amy Welborn: </a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/loyola-kids-book-of-seasons-feasts-celebrations" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="827" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnBNc_20-bFqBK1wkfi1yCk9HfqbOeiMRpBrYWohWuIA4F--_GBcGxVn8yn-nheJBjHNsKVrE0SK50uQ76rFpwRXQG3LS8jTkcBzNf3Y_AIk3vEYIR4Rjp7CBMf9GaP9dNRJMTzxS6Z8lWWDFyeySbtKfuIA0vmrp22wk8Da3xgjmrYSiRQ/w224-h320/feasts-and-seasons.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="224" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.6em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">The liturgical year isn't a concept to be taught; it's a celebration to be lived and experienced! Award-winning author Amy Welborn shines a spotlight on our vibrant faith by centering children as active participants in the seasons and feasts of our Catholic calendar. This friendly and accessible sourcebook for children provides an inspiring and multicultural journey through the Church year with Jesus, Mary, and the saints. Along the way, children will learn exciting details about how Catholic holidays are celebrated around the world.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.6em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">From the Sabbath through Holy Week, from Ordinary Time through the Jewish feasts of our spiritual heritage, <a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/loyola-kids-book-of-seasons-feasts-celebrations" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loyola Kids Book of Seasons, Feasts, and Celebrations</i> </a>will enable children and adults to experience faith with curiosity and wonder.</p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-85953489276254263212024-03-13T01:00:00.001-05:002024-03-13T01:00:00.133-05:00Easter Gifts for Catholic Children<p> <strong>Still looking for a Christmas Gift for your Catholic grandchild?</strong></p><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3oljtO4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RKcAXnxa0UM/XTpyzKOzjbI/AAAAAAAAx9U/hUN46sMA1NwQqB_Up4WKrDBnVRLIpmXjwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Loyola%2Bbooks.png" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><strong><br /></strong><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3oljtO4" target="_blank">The Loyola Kids' Book of Saints</a></em></strong><br /><br /> Over 40 saints' lives,written at a middle-school reading level.<br /><br /><strong>I. Saints are People Who Love Children</strong> St. Nicholas,St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla<br /> <strong>Saints Are People Who Love Their Families</strong> St. Monica,St. Cyril and St. Methodius, St. Therese of Lisieux,Blessed Frederic Ozanam,<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Surprise Others</strong>St. Simeon Stylites,St. Celestine V,St. Joan of Arc,St. Catherine of Siena<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Create</strong> St. Hildegard of Bingen,Blessed Fra Angelico,St. John of the Cross,Blessed Miguel Pro<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Teach Us New Ways to Pray</strong> St. Benedict,St. Dominic de Guzman,St. Teresa of Avila,St. Louis de Monfort<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who See Beyond the Everyday</strong> St. Juan Diego, St. Frances of Rome, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Blessed Padre Pio<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Travel From Home</strong> St. Boniface, St. Peter Claver, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis Solano, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Are Strong Leaders</strong> St. Helena, St. Leo the Great, St. Wenceslaus, St. John Neumann<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Tell The Truth</strong> St. Polycarp, St. Thomas Becket, St. Thomas More, Blessed Titus Brandsma<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Help Us Understand God</strong> St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Jerome, St. Patrick, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Edith Stein<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Change Their Lives for God</strong> St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Camillus de Lellis, St. Katharine Drexel<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Are Brave</strong> St. Perpetua and St. Felicity, St. George, St. Margaret Clitherow, St. Isaac Jogues, The Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, St. Maximilian Kolbe<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Help the Poor and Sick</strong> St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Martin de Porres, Blessed Joseph de Veuster<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Help In Ordinary Ways</strong> St. Christopher, St. Blaise, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Bernard of Montjoux<br /><br /><strong>Saints Are People Who Come From All Over the World</strong> Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Paul Miki, Blessed Peter To Rot, Blessed Maria Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta</div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-62030377873853831812024-03-12T02:00:00.001-05:002024-03-12T02:00:00.149-05:00Easter Gift for Catholic Child<p> A collection of Bible stories to excite young readers about the great adventure God has in store for those who follow him.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://ascensionpress.com/collections/collection-new/products/great-adventure-kids-catholic-bible-chronicles-ages-8-12" target="_blank">The Great Adventure Kids Catholic Bible Chronicles</a> by Amy Welborn is designed to help children ages 8-12 understand the greatest story of all time. It features 70 stories carefully chosen to capture the story of salvation history in its entirety from Adam and Eve to Christ and the Apostles.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WkGgV5rlbfQ/YFaB2E1MmcI/AAAAAAABFPo/Zm6xZ_3hUKMfwBzCTGypyvfm_1QYRUyvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/CatholicBibleChronicles3D_1800x1800.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WkGgV5rlbfQ/YFaB2E1MmcI/AAAAAAABFPo/Zm6xZ_3hUKMfwBzCTGypyvfm_1QYRUyvgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/CatholicBibleChronicles3D_1800x1800.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p>Written by a gifted children’s storyteller, the Catholic Bible Chronicles makes the stories of Biblical heroes like Abraham, Moses, David, and the Blessed Virgin Mary come alive. Each story features an illustration that helps readers imagine what it would have been like to be present as biblical history unfolded. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This 320-page book reads like a novel and incorporates the 12 color-coded time periods of The Bible TimelineⓇlearning system throughout to make it easier for children to grasp the chapters of Biblical history.</p><p><br /></p><p>With a focus on how the stories of God’s family members intersect across time, Catholic Bible Chronicles will allow young people to see for themselves that God has a plan for us all.</p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-71998592000978398952024-03-11T01:30:00.001-05:002024-03-11T01:30:00.130-05:00Easter Gift Ideas<p> <strong><em>T<a href="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/loyola-kids-book-of-heroes/sku/2816" target="_blank">he Loyola Kids Book of Heroes</a> </em>by Amy Welborn</strong></p><br /> More saints' lives, organized according to the virtues they expressed through their lives.<strong></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>I. Faith</strong><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AQNfzhguDo8/WO902u65ttI/AAAAAAAAIFE/-KyevVTp5YgcsT5sYSYItYTDNkKKn0puwCLcB/s1600/heroes.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AQNfzhguDo8/WO902u65ttI/AAAAAAAAIFE/-KyevVTp5YgcsT5sYSYItYTDNkKKn0puwCLcB/s200/heroes.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="133" /></a></div><ol><li>Introduction: Jesus is Born</li><li><strong>John the Baptist: </strong>A Hero Prepares the Way</li><li><strong>Early Christian Martyrs: </strong>Heroes are Faithful Friends</li><li><strong>Medieval Mystery Plays: </strong>Heroes Make the Bible Come to Life</li><li><strong>St. Albert the Great: </strong>Heroes Study God’s Creation</li><li><strong>Sister Blandina Segale:</strong> Heroes Work in Faith</li></ol><strong>II. Hope</strong><br /><ol><li>Introduction: Jesus Teaches</li><li><strong>Pentecost:</strong> Heroes on Fire with Hope</li><li><strong>Paul: </strong>A Hero Changes and Finds Hope</li><li><strong>St. Patrick and St. Columba:</strong> Heroes Bring Hope into Darkness</li><li><strong>St. Jane de Chantal: Heroes </strong>Hope through Loss</li><li><strong>St. Mary Faustina Kowalska: </strong>A Hero Finds Hope in Mercy</li></ol><strong>Charity</strong><br /><ol><li>Introduction: Jesus Works Miracles</li><li><strong>Peter and John:</strong> Heroes are Known by their Love</li><li><strong>St. Genevieve:</strong> A City is Saved by a Hero’s Charity</li><li><strong>St. Meinrad and St. Edmund Campion:</strong> Heroes love their Enemies</li><li><strong>Venerable Pierre Toussaint: </strong>A Hero Lives a Life of Charity</li><li><strong>Rose Hawthorne Lathrop:</strong> A Hero Cares for Those Who Need it Most</li><li><strong>Blessed Teresa of Calcutta:</strong> A Hero Lives Charity with the Dying</li></ol><strong>Temperance</strong><br /><ol><li>Introduction: Jesus Strikes a Balance</li><li><strong>Peter and Cornelius:</strong> Heroes Love Their Neighbors</li><li><strong>Charlemagne and Alcuin: </strong>Heroes Use their Talents for Good</li><li><strong>St. Francis:</strong> A Hero Appreciates Creation</li><li><strong>Venerable Matt Talbot:</strong> Heroes Can Let Go</li><li><strong>Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati:</strong> A Hero Enjoys the Gift of Life</li></ol><strong>Prudence</strong><br /><ol><li>Introduction: Jesus Gives Us Leaders to Help us Make Good Choices</li><li><strong>Paul and Barnabas at Lystra:</strong> Heroes See the Good in All Things</li><li><strong>St. Jean de Brebeuf:</strong> A Hero Respects Others</li><li><strong>Catherine Doherty and Jean Vanier:</strong> Heroes Bring New Ideas</li><li><strong>Venerable Solanus Casey:</strong> A Hero Accepts His Life</li><li><strong>Blessed John XXIII:</strong> A Hero Finds a New Way</li><li></li></ol>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-16140091526257254292024-03-10T01:00:00.000-06:002024-03-10T01:00:00.131-06:00Easter Gift for Mom<p> <i><a href="http://it%20is%20loosely%20tied%20to%20the%20liturgical%20year%2C%20is%20a%20very%20handy%20size%2C%20and%20features%20special%20devotions%20for%20several%20saints.%20it%20is%20not%20structured%20to%20be%20tied%20to%20any%20particular%20year.%20so%20it%E2%80%99s%20sort%20of%20perennial./">The Catholic Woman's Book of Days</a> b</i><i>y Amy Welborn </i>would be a wonderful birthday gift for any woman - mom, sister, friend. It's a good way to get back into more prayer during Lent. It's a 365-day devotional written for Catholic women - all Catholic women. It is loosely tied to the liturgical year, is a very handy size, and features special devotions for several saints. It is not structured to be tied to any particular year. So it’s sort of perennial.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0JO7fi6nqg/VNIpJiEIGdI/AAAAAAAABoo/FgIKMgCU438dutBuNkWzaPhIJoWsDhQQgCPcB/s1600/days.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="amy welborn" border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0JO7fi6nqg/VNIpJiEIGdI/AAAAAAAABoo/FgIKMgCU438dutBuNkWzaPhIJoWsDhQQgCPcB/s1600/days.jpg" title="amy welborn" /></a></div><br /><br /><a href="http://amywelborn.com/amy_welborn_books.html">You can find more information and ordering information here. </a>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-57001121553885183332024-03-09T01:30:00.000-06:002024-03-09T01:30:00.129-06:00St. Leo the Great on Lent Fasting, 4<p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="165" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jhs5Zt9RmGU/YAsOra7DuaI/AAAAAAABDfM/C3oVx8pHBQswPabTIpbzBopWXKuWiezBgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" title=""amy welborn"" width="178" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn</a></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">St. Leo the Great on Fasting: </a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.ii.v.xxiv.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">46</a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><em>We know indeed, dearly-beloved, your devotion to be so warm that in the fasting, which is the forerunner of the <span class="sc" id="ii.v.xxiv-p4.1">Lord’s</span> Easter, many of you will have forestalled our exhortations. But because the right practice of abstinence is needful not only to the mortification of the flesh but also to the purification of the mind, we desire your observance to be so complete that,<strong> as you cut down the pleasures that belong to the lusts of the flesh, so you should banish the errors that proceed from the imaginations of the heart.</strong> For he whose heart is polluted with no misbelief prepares himself with true and reasonable purification for the Paschal Feast, in which all the mysteries of our religion meet together. For, as the Apostle says, that “all that is not of faith is sin<sup class="Note" id="fna_ii.v.xxiv-p4.2"><a class="Note" href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.ii.v.xxiv.html#fnf_ii.v.xxiv-p4.2">933</a></sup>,” the fasting of those will be unprofitable and vain, whom the father of lying deceives with his delusions, and who are not fed by Christ’s true flesh. As then we must with the whole heart obey the Divine commands and sound doctrine, so we must use all foresight in abstaining from wicked imaginations. For the mind then only keeps holy and spiritual fast when it rejects the food of error and the poison of falsehood, which our crafty and wily foe plies us with more treacherously now, when by the very return of the venerable Festival, the whole church generally is admonished to understand the mysteries of its salvation. ...</em></p><p><br /></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-26371364067498427262024-03-08T01:30:00.002-06:002024-03-08T06:43:51.743-06:00Amy Welborn in Living Faith<p> Amy Welborn is a contributor - five devotions per issue - to the<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1978535253"> </a><em><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/" target="_blank">Living Faith</a> </em>daily devotional .</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2024-03-08" target="_blank">Today, March 8:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px !important;"><i>For, as the people of Israel learned again and again, the Lord is always waiting. As Hosea tells us, God welcomes us into his loving embrace, no matter who we are, what we’ve done, no matter what time of day it is or what stage of life we’re in.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px !important;"><i>It’s never too late.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2024-03-08" target="_blank">MORE:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2024-02-11" target="_blank"> February 11:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656; font-size: 17px;"><i>On Ash Wednesday morning last year, I was in Putignano, Italy, looking for Mass. I found an open church with people sitting inside. I joined them. A man started lighting the altar candles. Mass must begin soon, I thought. But then what? Why is he lighting the paschal candle?</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2024-02-11" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-12-30" target="_blank">December 30:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656; font-size: 17px;"><i>For we need both, don’t we? We need the wisdom of the experienced, and we need the energy and the idealism of the young. Without the young around, we can become settled and cynical. Without their elders’ long view, youthful idealism can veer off course.</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-12-30" target="_blank">MORE:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-11-23" target="_blank">November 23:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656; font-size: 17px;">I was sitting on a plane, waiting to take off on a flight across the ocean. A long flight. The seat next to me was empty. Passengers streamed in. Still empty. I grew hopeful. Was I going to luck out and have the row to myself for those eight hours? How thankful I would be if that were so! </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; font-size: 17px;">Please, please…thank you, thank you!</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-11-23" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-10-30" target="_blank">October 30:</a></p><p><br /></p><div><i><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656;">I often forget to put out my trash for collection. Well, let’s be honest. It’s not so much “forget” as “procrastinate”—until that moment I hear the trash trucks at the corner, and it’s too late.</span></i></div><p><i><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656;">A few months ago, my neighbor had surgery, and one of the small ways I helped was by taking care of her trash. I never did forget to get it down to the curb, which, not surprisingly, led me to unfailingly get the job done for myself. A little thing but telling, I thought.</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-10-30" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-10-07" target="_blank"> October 7:</a></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656; font-size: 17px;"><i>We all know that children are naturally eager to learn. They’re like sponges, we say. It’s delightful to see even if a child’s questions might wear us down after a while. Jesus reminds us that this childlike openness to the Lord is the beginning of true wisdom.</i></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-10-07" target="_blank">More. </a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-09-21" target="_blank">, September 21:</a></p><p>Perhaps I should have known it all along, but whatever the case, through a priest’s words in a homily on a recent Sunday, I learned something new.</p><p><br /></p><p>For I had always thought of the vice called “sloth” as not much more than laziness. Of course, it’s actually much more than that. Sloth is the unwillingness to do what we know is right and good. It’s hearing God’s voice calling us and responding with “I’d rather not” or “not now” or “that’s too hard.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-09-21" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-09-04" target="_blank">September 4:</a></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656;"><i>It happens with electrical cords; it happens with the garden hose. There’s just that one little loop, that one knot. I think I don’t need to untangle it. It’s long enough. It will reach. And of course, it never does. That one knot makes a huge difference, and it really didn’t take that much to undo it.</i></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-09-04" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-06-11" target="_blank"> June 11</a></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656;"><i>One of the most wonderful parts of the celebration of this feast, worldwide, is the procession. A few years ago, I witnessed the huge, elaborate Corpus Christi procession in Seville, Spain. It took hours and featured hundreds of women, men and children, large floats, statues of saints and, of course, the Blessed Sacrament, taken through the city streets strewn with rosemary.</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-06-11" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-05-12" target="_blank">May 12</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>“I feel seen” is a cliché, but like all clichés, it embodies a truth. To say that we feel “seen” expresses a yearning, doesn’t it? A yearning for affirmation, for assurance that we’re not weird and, most of all, a yearning to know that we are loved.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-05-12" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-03-31" target="_blank">March 31:</a></p><p><i>But what is “triumph?” Winning? Obvious domination right here and right now, in this time and place? That can be very challenging to figure out, and it’s going to look different in every struggle. We may not even see it in this life. But during Lent, we’ve been working on a deepening dependence on the Lord, and in that dependence, that’s where “triumph” begins.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2023-03-31" target="_blank">MORE: </a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2022-02-24" target="_blank">February 24</a>:</p><p><i>I am generally pretty negative about the impact of social media on our culture—and on me, personally—but there are times I am forced to grudgingly admit its value. So, the other day, just because I ran across her social media account, I learned of a young single woman in my town who fosters teen girls. Her account is a helpful and illuminating series of posts explaining why she does this, the way she tries to help the girls feel at home, the struggles and the great rewards.</i></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2022-02-24" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2022-02-02" target="_blank">February 2: </a></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #565656;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">These blessings are a concrete way of linking our lives out here in the world to the Body of Christ. It’s also a reminder that what Jesus gives us—the peace, the grace, the joy and, yes, the light—isn’t given to us to keep to ourselves. It’s given to us, as Simeon prayed, to take out into the world so that all can see the light and know that peace as well. </span></i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2022-02-02" target="_blank">MORE: </a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-12-28" target="_blank">December 28:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The apparent irony of it can never fail to strike us, I think—the memory of this terrible day, the slaughter of innocents—following almost immediately after the joyous celebration of the Nativity.</i></p><p><i>It’s a reminder of many truths: that the life of the Christian is a journey to the Cross, of the depth and gravity of the sin that Jesus came to save the world from. All of these can be unpacked theologically at great length.</i></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-12-28" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-10-24" target="_blank">October 24:</a></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>I wear contact lenses, so when I wake up in the morning, everything beyond my hand in front of my face is a blur. But as that new day begins, I’m blind in another way too, even after I pop my contacts in. I have no idea what’s coming. I may have a sense and I may even have a plan. But really, I don’t know. I’m in the dark.</i></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>And so, Jesus meets me as I awaken and asks this same question. What do I want him to do for me as I begin my day’s journey in the dark?</i></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-10-24" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-10-01"> October 1:</a></p><p><em>Sitting in our large stone, echo-prone cathedral during Mass, I heard a phone. It wasn’t a full-out ring, but that pulsing, vibrating sound of an almost “silenced” phone. It sounded as if it were coming from across the church. I waited, smirking, for the owner to turn it off. It kept going. </em></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-10-01">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-09-27" rel="noopener" target="_blank">September 27:</a></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656; font-size: small;"><em>Today is the feast of the great French servant of the poor, St. Vincent de Paul.</em></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656; font-size: small;"><em>There is no lack of charities serving those in need in the world, but Jesus makes clear here the Christian difference: to not see “the poor” as a group “below” those who serve them from on high. No, we’re all one body in Christ, and we’re called to understand ourselves as “the least” simply serving each other, brothers and sisters, out of mutual love and responsibility.</em></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-09-27" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-09-27" rel="noopener" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-30" target="_blank">June 30:</a></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em>This is one of the most telling, revealing moments in the gospel—not about Jesus, but about us.</em></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em> </em></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em>For how many times has Jesus visited me where I live? In the sacraments, in moments of prayer, in the love and presence of other people—he’s come to me. He’s healed, taught and revealed the way to real happiness and peace. I know this! I know all about it! And I say I believe it. </em></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-30" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-30" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-10" target="_blank"> June 10:</a></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em>My son was happy to get his first credit card. He’s financially responsible to the point of miserliness, so I wasn’t concerned about him misusing it. But after a few months, he observed, reflecting on that magic period that falls between spending on the card and actually paying the bill, “I don’t like credit cards. They make me think I have more money than I really do.” </em></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em> </em></span></span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #565656;"><span><em>His words prompted me to consider in what parts of my own life I might be allowing delusion and pretense to rule.</em></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-10" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-06-10" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-03-29"> March 29:</a></p><p><em>Before everything shut down last year, I was in New York City to see Hadestown, a musical loosely based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The play is framed, beginning and end, with Hermes singing: “It’s an old song, it’s a tragedy…but we’re gonna sing it again and again.”</em></p><p><em>Sitting with theatergoers, listening to an affirmation of the power of retelling a tale over and over, reminded me of the importance of liturgy, especially Holy Week. What we tell this week is more than a story.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2021-03-29"><em>More</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2020-12-29" target="_blank"> December 29 (written a year ago, before the Covid pandemic)</a></p><p><em>Another calendar year is drawing to an end. When I look back, what do I see? What emotions do the events of this year’s journey around the sun bring? Perhaps the year has been dominated by sadness or discord, and we won’t be sorry at all to see it go.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3133806/8562560248621791771#" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2020-11-24" target="_blank"> November 24:</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2020-11-24" target="_blank"> </a></p><div class="wel_content_08">Before the LORD, for he comes; for he comes to rule the earth.</div><div class="wel_content_08">Psalm 96:13</div><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px !important; margin: 15px 0px 10px;">Advent approaches, and as we draw near to that season, the Scripture readings are all about the last things: death, judgment and eternity. These can be frightening to contemplate, subjects we might rather avoid. But we can’t. Here they are, presented to us in God’s Word. And, if we are honest, here they are in the ebb and flow of our lives.</p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/daily-devotion/2020-11-24" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-29-2020" target="_blank"> October 29:</a></p><h4><span class="dev_scripture"><em>In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.</em></span></h4><h5><span class="dev_citation"><em>- Ephesians 6:16</em></span></h5><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>On our last day in South Florida, we headed out to Biscayne National Park, hoping to see the Miami skyline and, if we were lucky, some manatees. We were surprised by a different sight: loads of well-dressed people waiting in line and then gathering under a large tent. We had happened upon a citizenship ceremony. It was quite moving. What struck me was that these people had such intentional pursuit and acceptance of rights and responsibilities with which I'd been born, things that I had hardly ever thought about.</em></span></h4><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-29-2020" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-29-2020" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-29-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-18-2020" target="_blank"> October 18<br /><br /></a></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>What to do? I called a neighbor and asked him to come help me change the tire. I called a friend and asked her to bring my son to where I was. I wasn't crazy about bothering folks at that time of night, but if I'd been called on the same kind of mission, I wouldn't have minded helping. We're all in this together. We need help, we give help. Paul didn't travel the known world inviting people to solitary relationships with God. He called them into community: into the body of Christ, called by him, there for each other.</em></span></h4><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-18-2020" target="_blank"> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-18-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a></p><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-09-24-2020" target="_blank">September 24:</a><br /><br /></p><h4><span class="dev_scripture"><em>Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,<br />vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!<br />What profit has man from all the labor<br />which he toils at under the sun?<br />One generation passes and another comes,<br />but the world forever stays.</em></span></h4><h5><span class="dev_citation"><em>- Ecclesiastes 1:2-4</em></span></h5><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>For a week, Copan Ruinas, Honduras, was home. We walked everywhere. And on our daily route, we passed her. Ancient and tiny, neatly dressed, she sat motionless in the doorway of the ice cream shop. If we caught her eye, she would smile slightly and return her gaze to the ground. Hundreds of years ago, kings and priests looked down at their subjects here from the heights of Mayan palaces, sure of their importance, confident in their legacy. Now, children scramble over the crumbling stones.</em></span></h4><p><br /><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-09-24-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-09-24-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-05-06-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-05-06-2020" target="_blank"></a></p><h4> </h4><p><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank"> April 27:</a><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank"></a></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em><span face=""verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #555555;">My wallet was old and bulkier than I needed. It was also patterned in a hideous pinkish paisley. But it had been a gift from my son, who, as he proudly told me on that Christmas morning years ago, had picked it out all by himself.</span></em></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em><span face=""verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #555555;"><span><br /></span></span><span face=""verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #555555;"><span>So, not wanting to hurt his feelings, I kept it. I recently mentioned the situation in passing and that same son said, "Well, why don't you just get a new one?" </span></span></em></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-27-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-03-2020">April 3:</a><br /><br /><em><br /></em><em>I love you, O LORD, my strength,<br />O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.<br />- Psalm 18:2-3<br /><br />My youngest son and I recently headed to the Badlands of South Dakota. I had seen photographs of the layered, varicolored, almost lunar landscape, but the reality of what I encountered surprised me. I had assumed the formations we'd be walking among were solid rock--but they're not! They're sediment. Essentially huge piles of crumbly, dried mud. No wonder I'd not been able to find any rock-climbing activities for my son. You'd tumble right down if you tried. And no wonder this park, unlike any other national park, permits open, off-trail hiking. It's all going to erode anyway, and fairly soon in geological time.</em><br /><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-04-03-2020">MORE</a><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"> March 12 - </a><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"></a></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>Last year, we spent a couple of weeks in Seville, Spain. Around the corner from our apartment was a church with a forecourt. In the rear of this courtyard stood a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus. Any time I walked past, day or evening, I saw the same sight: a steady stream of people coming in from the street--passing by on the sidewalk bearing briefcases, shopping bags and backpacks, young and old--stopping in to light a candle, offer flowers (there was always a bank of bouquets in front of the statue) and stand for a moment and pray.</em></span></h4><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-03-12-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-02-09-2020" target="_blank">For example, today - February 9.</a><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-02-09-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-02-09-2020" target="_blank"></a></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>We live, it seems, in a time in which political talk never, ever ends. And about this time in the four-year election cycle in the U.S., it's reaching a peak. Sometimes the intense emotions and judgments that characterize these conversations lead me to wonder if people are looking for a competent government leader or something more profound in a spiritually barren time.</em></span></h4><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-02-09-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-02-09-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-31-2020" target="_blank"> January 31:</a><br /><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr align="left" valign="top"><td><h4><span class="dev_scripture"><em>Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.</em></span></h4><h5><span class="dev_citation"><em>- 2 Samuel 11:15</em></span></h5><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>What a terrible, wretched incident this is: David, the Lord's anointed and King of Israel, has an innocent man killed so he can have his wife to himself.<br /><br />And how striking it is that God's people didn't hide this horrifying sin. In reading the Hebrew Scriptures, I can't help but be struck by their honesty and, indeed, rawness at times.</em></span></h4></td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-31-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-31-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-31-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-13-2020" target="_blank"> January 13:</a><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-13-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-13-2020" target="_blank"></a></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="dev_body"><em>In the midst of one of these situations, of course I was moved to pray. First, for a resolution to the situation that involved no loss, either of material goods or my pride. "Please fix it," I asked God. "Thanks." But then a different prayer came to me, a simpler one: "Help me bring good out of this."</em></span></blockquote><p><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-13-2020" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-13-2020" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-07-2018" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-07-2018" target="_blank">January 7:</a><br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="dev_body"><em>I would have just driven on by. But my son, always alert to the mysteries that nature holds, had been paying attention, so he was able to see. And so Magi, wise and observant of God's ways in the world, were led by the light to his son.</em></span></blockquote><p><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-01-07-2018" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-26-2017" target="_blank">December 26</a><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-19-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-19-2017" target="_blank"> December 19:</a><br /><br /></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>During Advent, in these days leading to Christmas, my days and evenings are marked by familiar rituals of all kinds.<br /><br />I pray at Mass, of course. And in the Scriptures, prayers and music, I am eased into the journey of waiting and hope. Candles glimmer from my mother's Advent wreath. We hang the wooden "O Antiphon" crafts my sons made years ago. The lights, the recipes, the scents of these days create a place that I know.</em></span></h4><p><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-19-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-19-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-12-19-2017" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-17-2017" target="_blank">November 17</a><br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="dev_body"><em>Last Thanksgiving, a local restaurant offered a free meal. If you could pay, fine, and any money would go to a shelter. If you were unable to pay, that didn't matter. The doors were open, the table was set, and you were welcome to the feast.</em></span></blockquote><p><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-17-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-17-2017" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-05-2017" target="_blank"> November 5:</a><br /><br /></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>I am surrounded by people just trying to do the right thing. Sometimes we make the right decisions, sometimes the wrong ones. We correct our mistakes, try to do better and bear it all patiently, never forgetting our own limitations and our own missed calls.</em></span></h4><p><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-05-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-11-05-2017" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-04-2017" target="_blank">October 4:</a><br /><br /></p><h4><span class="dev_body"><em>He was called Il Poverello--the little poor one--and we very strongly and rightly associate St. Francis of Assisi with poverty. We love him because in him we see that it is, indeed, possible to live the call of Jesus, to follow in a radical way, with nowhere to rest our head, trusting in God alone on the journey.</em></span></h4><p><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-04-2017" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/devotion-10-04-2017" target="_blank">MORE</a><br /><br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr align="left" valign="top"><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qs1ca45zmn4/VPXDlzVyWVI/AAAAAAAABqc/GX9fmwwt_Gk4Ozo1UcgVEkij1qylyX9mACPcBGAYYCw/s250/days.jpg"><img alt="amy welborn" border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="170" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qs1ca45zmn4/VPXDlzVyWVI/AAAAAAAABqc/GX9fmwwt_Gk4Ozo1UcgVEkij1qylyX9mACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/days.jpg" title="amy welborn" /></a></div><div class="separator"> </div><div class="separator"> </div><div class="separator">Recently:</div><div class="separator"> </div><div> </div><p><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/" target="_blank">The webpage for <em>Living Faith </em>is here.</a><br /><br /><em>Living Faith </em>is a print publication -<a href="https://sfsdata.com/LivingFaith/Subscribe.aspx" target="_blank"> available in Spanish and English</a> - but a digital edition is available as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingfaith.com/digital.php" target="_blank">More information on the digital edition is here. </a><br /><br /><br />Follow <em>Living Faith </em>on<a href="https://www.facebook.com/livingfaithdevotions" target="_blank"> Facebook</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/LivingFaithCath" target="_blank"> Twitter.</a></p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-56903599041052247332024-03-07T01:30:00.000-06:002024-03-07T01:30:00.251-06:00Perpetua and Felicity - March 7<p> <span style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;">They are in the section of </span><a data-mce-href="http://amzn.to/1QBJCkm" href="http://amzn.to/1QBJCkm" style="color: #00aadc; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;" target="_blank"><em>The Loyola Kids' Book of Saints</em> </a><span style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;">by Amy Welborn called:</span></p><div style="line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><a data-mce-href="http://amzn.to/1QBJCkm" href="http://amzn.to/1QBJCkm" style="color: #00aadc; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" class="wp-image-17465 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn4.jpg" height="423" src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn4.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="306" /></a><span style="color: #00aadc; font-family: merriweather, georgia, times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Friday Stations of the Cross</u></span></span></div><div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;">The last couple of pages:</div><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><img alt=""amy welborn"" class="wp-image-17466 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn2.jpg" height="402" src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn2.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="282" /></div><div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.4px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><img alt=""amy welborn"" class="wp-image-17464 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn3.jpg" height="405" src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/amy_welborn3.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="285" /></div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-73106165114211363622024-03-07T00:30:00.001-06:002024-03-07T00:30:00.138-06:00St. Francis Cabrini movie<p> </p><p>A movie about the life of St. Francis Cabrini is being release tomorrow, March 8. </p><p><br /></p><p><a data-mce-href="http://www.universalis.com/20151113/today.htm" href="http://www.universalis.com/20151113/today.htm" style="color: #1b8be0; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" target="_blank"> St. Frances Xavier Cabrini</a><span face=""open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">'s feastday is November 13. </span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">If you ever feel tired...read her story.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">Here it is from the <i>Loyola Kids Book of Saints </i>by Amy Welborn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4vgAaRX5AMk/Wc8e4oiH6lI/AAAAAAAAOUY/_ebnxYa8-nQ_g6Xr9gv8spFYgoId0kKqQCPcBGAYYCw/s499/amy-welborn-saints.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Amy Welborn" border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4vgAaRX5AMk/Wc8e4oiH6lI/AAAAAAAAOUY/_ebnxYa8-nQ_g6Xr9gv8spFYgoId0kKqQCPcBGAYYCw/w224-h320/amy-welborn-saints.jpg" title="Amy Welborn" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">If you ever wonder how the Church can "go to the margins" ...read her story.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">If you are under the impression that before the last couple of years Catholics were unaware of the missionary call of Christ and spent their lives closed up in fortresses....read her story.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">Here’s an<a data-mce-href="http://www.loyolapress.com/saints-stories-for-kids.htm?cId=402262" href="http://www.loyolapress.com/saints-stories-for-kids.htm?cId=402262" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" target="_blank"> excerpt from the chapter on St. Frances Cabrini </a>from the <em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Loyola-Kids-Book-Saints-Welborn/dp/0829415343" href="http://www.amazon.com/Loyola-Kids-Book-Saints-Welborn/dp/0829415343" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" target="_blank">Loyola Kids’ Book of Saints by Amy Welborn.</a> </em>To reiterate – it’s an excerpt. There’s more at the beginning at the end to relate her story to a younger child’s life. It’s in a section called,<a data-mce-href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/saints-for-children/" href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/saints-for-children/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" target="_blank">“Saints are People who Travel Far From Home,” along with St. Boniface, St. Peter Claver, St. Francis Xavier and St. Francis Solano. </a></div><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 2em 0px 1.5em;"><div style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">By the late 1880s, Mother Cabrini became interested in a new problem. Hundreds of thousands of Italians moved to America, seeking a way out of the poverty of their new land. Very few of these immigrants were successful right away. Most lived in worse poverty than they’d endured back in Italy. They lived in crowded and dirty apartments, lived on scraps, and were unable to find work. Sad stories traveled back to the home country, right to Mother Cabrini. So Mother Cabrini set out on the long trip to America.</em></div><div style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Over the next thirty-seven years, Mother Cabrini was constantly on the move, starting schools, orphanages, and hospitals for Italian immigrants, and others in need. In the first few years she traveled between New York, Nicaragua, and New Orleans. After having a dream in which she saw Mary tending to the sick lying in hospital beds, Mother Cabrini started Columbus Hospital in New York City.</em></div><div style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">After she founded the hospital, Mother Cabrini made trips back to Italy to organize more nuns for work in America. Between these trips, she and some sisters headed south to Argentina. The sisters went by way of Panama and then Lima, Peru. They made the journey by boat, train, mule, and on foot.</em></div><div style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Back in the United State, Mother Cabrini traveled constantly taking her sisters to Chicago, Seattle, and Denver. It was in Chicago that Mother Cabrini, at the age of sixty-seven, passed away. She’d begun her work with just a handful of sisters. By the time she died, fifty houses of sisters were teaching, caring for orphans, and running hospitals. Her order had grown to almost a thousand sisters in all.</em></div></blockquote><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.04px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 2em 0px 1.5em;"><div style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0.825em;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2013/11/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-frances-xavier-cabrini-3/" href="http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2013/11/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-frances-xavier-cabrini-3/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" target="_blank"><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">“I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.</em></a></div></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-73860302913916372902024-03-06T01:00:00.001-06:002024-03-06T01:00:00.138-06:00St. Leo the Great on Lent Fasting, 3<p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="165" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jhs5Zt9RmGU/YAsOra7DuaI/AAAAAAABDfM/C3oVx8pHBQswPabTIpbzBopWXKuWiezBgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" title=""amy welborn"" width="178" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn</a></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">St. Leo the Great on Fasting: </a></p><p><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.ii.v.xxiii.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">42</a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><em>Being therefore, dearly-beloved, fully instructed by these admonitions of ours, which we have often repeated in your ears in protest against abominable error, enter upon the holy days of Lent with Godly devoutness, and prepare yourselves to win <span class="sc" id="ii.v.xxiii-p26.1">God’s</span> mercy by your own works of mercy. Quench your anger, wipe out enmities, cherish unity, and vie with one another in the offices of true humility. Rule your slaves and those who are put under you with fairness, let none of them be tortured by imprisonment or chains. Forego vengeance, forgive offences: exchange severity for gentleness, indignation for meekness, discord for peace. Let all men find us self-restrained, peaceable, kind: that our fastings may be acceptable to <span class="sc" id="ii.v.xxiii-p26.2">God</span>. For in a word to Him we offer the sacrifice of true abstinence and true Godliness, when we keep ourselves from all evil: the Almighty <span class="sc" id="ii.v.xxiii-p26.3">God </span>helping us through all, to Whom with the Son and Holy Spirit belongs one Godhead and one Majesty, for ever and ever. Amen.</em></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-25408728782430977832024-03-05T01:30:00.003-06:002024-03-05T01:30:00.134-06:00Why fast during Lent? <p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="165" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jhs5Zt9RmGU/YAsOra7DuaI/AAAAAAABDfM/C3oVx8pHBQswPabTIpbzBopWXKuWiezBgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" title=""amy welborn"" width="178" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn</a></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">St. Leo the Great on Fasting:</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.ii.v.xxii.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">40</a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><em>Let works of piety, therefore, be our delight, and let us be filled with those kinds of food which feed us for eternity. Let us rejoice in the replenishment of the poor, whom our bounty has satisfied. Let us delight in the clothing of those whose nakedness we have covered with needful raiment. Let our humaneness be felt by the sick in their illnesses, by the weakly in their infirmities, by the exiles in their hardships, by the orphans in their destitution, and by solitary widows in their sadness: in the helping of whom there is no one that cannot carry out some amount of benevolence. For no one’s income is small, whose heart is big: and the measure of one’s mercy and goodness does not depend on the size of one’s means. Wealth of goodwill is never rightly lacking, even in a slender purse. Doubtless the expenditure of the rich is greater, and that of the poor smaller, but there is no difference in the fruit of their works, where the purpose of the workers is the same.</em></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-33425821801662808742024-03-04T01:00:00.000-06:002024-03-04T01:00:00.129-06:00St. Leo the Great on Lent Fasting, 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="165" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jhs5Zt9RmGU/YAsOra7DuaI/AAAAAAABDfM/C3oVx8pHBQswPabTIpbzBopWXKuWiezBgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" title=""amy welborn"" width="178" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn</a></p><p><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">St. Leo the Great on Fasting: </a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.ii.v.xxi.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sermon 39:</a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><em>Relying, therefore, dearly-beloved, on these arms, let us enter actively and fearlessly on the contest set before us: so that in this fasting struggle we may not rest satisfied with only this end, that we should think abstinence from food alone desirable. For it is not enough that the substance of our flesh should be reduced, if the strength of the soul be not also developed. When the outer man is somewhat subdued, let the inner man be somewhat refreshed; and when bodily excess is denied to our flesh, let our mind be invigorated by spiritual delights. Let every Christian scrutinise himself, and search severely into his inmost heart: let him see that no discord cling there, no wrong desire be harboured. Let chasteness drive incontinence far away; let the light of truth dispel the shades of deception; let the swellings of pride subside; let wrath yield to reason; let the darts of ill-treatment be shattered, and the chidings of the tongue be bridled; let thoughts of revenge fall through, and injuries be given over to oblivion. </em></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-78369678503228177262024-03-03T00:30:00.000-06:002024-03-03T00:30:00.135-06:00St. Augustine on Fasting, 3<p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn </a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A few of St. Augustine's sermons on Lent have come down to us. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/fathersofthechur009512mbp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">This is a translation published in 1959 - you want sermons 205-211, that start on p. 185. </a> I am not sure of the dating or specific context - they seem to have been preached in different years, since the themes carry over from sermon to sermon - such as the repeated reminder that if you abstain from some food or drink, it then makes no sense to replace what you have sacrifice with something that either is more costly or affords you as much or greater pleasure.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zSyo21Oo7E/YAsJAoOsonI/AAAAAAABDfE/QYgQUVg5MHsWM1IGO6HCiIS5BXnQOddYgCPcBGAYYCw/s1017/amy-welborn100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1017" height="171" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zSyo21Oo7E/YAsJAoOsonI/AAAAAAABDfE/QYgQUVg5MHsWM1IGO6HCiIS5BXnQOddYgCPcBGAYYCw/w320-h171/amy-welborn100.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciated this, from Sermon 207.</p><blockquote><p><i>.....</i></p><p><i>.....</i></p><p><em>Of course, care must be taken to avoid merely changing instead of lessening pleasures. For you may observe that certain persons seek out rare liquors in place of their ordinary wine; that they, with much greater relish, counterbalance </em><em>by the juice of other fruits what they lose by denying themselves the juice of grapes; that, in place of meat, they procure food of manifold variety and appeal; that they store up,</em><br /><em>as opportune for this season, delights which they would be ashamed to indulge in at other times. In this way, t<strong>he observance of Lent becomes, not the curbing of old passions, but </strong></em><em><strong>an opportunity for new pleasures.</strong> Take measures in advance, my brethren, with as much diligence as possible, to prevent these attitudes from creeping upon you. <strong>Let frugality be </strong></em><em><strong>joined to fasting</strong>. As surfeiting the stomach is to be censured, so stimulants of the appetite must be eliminated. It is not that certain kinds of food are to be detested, but that bodily pleasure is to be checked. Esau was censured, not for having desired a fat calf or plump birds, but for having coveted a dish of pottage. 5 And holy King David repented of having excessively desired water. 6 Hence, not by delicacies obtained with much labor and at great expense, but by the cheaper food found within reach, is the body to be refreshed, or, rather, sustained in its fasting.</em></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-67203019735217841082024-03-02T00:30:00.000-06:002024-03-02T00:30:00.299-06:00St. Augustine on Fasting, 2<p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">-Amy Welborn </a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A few of St. Augustine's sermons on Lent have come down to us. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/fathersofthechur009512mbp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">This is a translation published in 1959 - you want sermons 205-211, that start on p. 185. </a> I am not sure of the dating or specific context - they seem to have been preached in different years, since the themes carry over from sermon to sermon - such as the repeated reminder that if you abstain from some food or drink, it then makes no sense to replace what you have sacrifice with something that either is more costly or affords you as much or greater pleasure.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1017" height="171" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zSyo21Oo7E/YAsJAoOsonI/AAAAAAABDfE/QYgQUVg5MHsWM1IGO6HCiIS5BXnQOddYgCPcBGAYYCw/w320-h171/amy-welborn100.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciated this, from Sermon 207.</p><blockquote><p><i>.....</i></p><p><em>In regard to almsgiving, we are commanded to give bread to the hungry, but He first gave Himself over to cruel enemies for us so that He might give Himself as food to us when we were hungry. We are commanded to receive the stranger; for our sake He 'came unto his own and his own received him not.' In a word, let our soul bless Him who becomes a propitiation for all its iniquities, who heals all its diseases, who redeems its life from corruption, who crowns it in mercy and pity, who satisfies its desires in blessings. Let us give alms the more generously and the more frequently in proportion as the day draws nearer on which the supreme almsgiving accomplished for us is celebrated. Fasting without mercy is worthless to him who fasts.</em></p><p><em> Let us fast, humbling our souls as the day draws near on which the Teacher of humility humbled Himself becoming obedient even to death on a cross. Let us imitate</em><br /><em>His cross, fastening to it our passions subdued by the nails of abstinence. Let us chastise our body, subjecting it to obedience, and, lest we slip into illicit pleasures through</em><br /><em>our undisciplined flesh, let us in taming it sometimes withdraw licit pleasures. Self-indulgence and drunkenness ought to be shunned on other days; throughout this season, however, even legitimate eating is to be checked. Adultery and fornication must always be abhorred and avoided, but on these days special restraint must be practised even by mar-</em><br /><em>ried persons. <strong>The flesh, which has been accustomed to </strong><strong>restraint in regard to its own satisfaction, will readily submit </strong><strong>to you when there is question of clinging to another's goods. </strong></em></p><p><em>Of course, care must be taken to avoid merely changing instead of lessening pleasures. For you may observe that certain persons seek out rare liquors in place of their ordinary wine; that they, with much greater relish, counterbalance </em><em>by the juice of other fruits what they lose by denying themselves the juice of grapes; that, in place of meat, they procure food of manifold variety and appeal; that they store up,</em><br /><em>as opportune for this season, delights which they would be ashamed to indulge in at other times. In this way, t<strong>he observance of Lent becomes, not the curbing of old passions, but </strong></em><em><strong>an opportunity for new pleasures.</strong> Take measures in advance, my brethren, with as much diligence as possible, to prevent these attitudes from creeping upon you. <strong>Let frugality be </strong></em><em><strong>joined to fasting</strong>. As surfeiting the stomach is to be censured, so stimulants of the appetite must be eliminated. It is not that certain kinds of food are to be detested, but that bodily pleasure is to be checked. Esau was censured, not for having desired a fat calf or plump birds, but for having coveted a dish of pottage. 5 And holy King David repented of having excessively desired water. 6 Hence, not by delicacies obtained with much labor and at great expense, but by the cheaper food found within reach, is the body to be refreshed, or, rather, sustained in its fasting.</em></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-35730186567011222772024-03-01T01:30:00.000-06:002024-03-01T01:30:00.132-06:00St. Augustine on Fasting, Part 1<p> <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Amy Welborn</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1017" height="171" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zSyo21Oo7E/YAsJAoOsonI/AAAAAAABDfA/FHaIEUky4xkzL03UcKf7y7nBd2N8BtzXACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h171/amy-welborn100.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="320" /></a></div><br /> A few of St. Augustine's sermons on Lent have come down to us. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/fathersofthechur009512mbp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">This is a translation published in 1959 - you want sermons 205-211, that start on p. 185. </a> I am not sure of the dating or specific context - they seem to have been preached in different years, since the themes carry over from sermon to sermon - such as the repeated reminder that if you abstain from some food or drink, it then makes no sense to replace what you have sacrifice with something that either is more costly or affords you as much or greater pleasure.<p></p><p>I appreciated this, from Sermon 207.</p><blockquote><p><em>By the help of the merciful Lord our God, the temptations of the world, the snares of the Devil, the suffering of the world, the enticement of the flesh, the surging waves of </em><em>troubled times, and all corporal and spiritual adversities are to be overcome by almsgiving, fasting, and prayer.</em></p><p><em>These practices ought to glow throughout the entire life of a Christian, but especially as the Paschal solemnity approaches which </em><em>stirs up our minds by its yearly return, renewing in them the salutary memory that our Lord, the only-begotten Son of God, showed mercy to us and fasted and prayed for us. As </em><em>a matter of fact, eleemosyna in Greek signifies mercy in Latin. Moreover, what mercy could be greater, so far as we poor wretches are concerned, than that which drew the Creator of the heavens down from heaven, clothed the Maker of the earth with earthly vesture, made Him, who in eternity remains equal to His Father, equal to us in mortality, and imposed on the Lord of the universe the form of a servant, <strong>so that He, our Bread, might hunger; that He, our Fulfillment, might thirst; that He, our Strength, might be weakened; that He, our Health, might be injured; that He, our Life, might die? And all this [He did] to satisfy our hunger, to moisten our dryness, to soothe our infirmity, to wipe out our iniquity, to enkindle our charity. What greater mercy could there be than that the Creator be created, the Ruler be served, the Redeemer be sold, the Exalted be humbled </strong><strong>and the Reviver be killed?</strong></em></p><p><br /></p></blockquote>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-27698973454592524002024-02-29T01:00:00.000-06:002024-02-29T01:00:00.137-06:00Daily Lent Devotional <p> <a href="https://amzn.to/49hpgJl" target="_blank"><i>The Power of the Cross </i>by Michael Dubruiel</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/49hpgJl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""michael Dubruiel"" border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1838" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5uJl9uQ1SDrn-S405UhbqnKPPxksFRw_S1ArUYcvkEliNQ8K63knK7YYISBvN-4FihwBYkJRLv3dZHbRLCW43qyS-hQmMefyeynUlGBHErI3ip0YHvmQenUYVue79LEuM8bGW5M3wF1hseAVEiTCVveTyQC-GJhgsIwNnX4QAWm1Lqv147EG/w212-h320/cover-corrected%20(2).jpg" title=""michael Dubruiel"" width="212" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">There is power in the Cross of Christ that, sad to say, many Christians don't experience. Now you can learn to see Jesus' suffering and death not as a spectacle or theatrical production, but as a blueprint for how to live your life.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Here is the radical teaching of Our Lord presented in a series of concrete steps that you can take at your own pace, whether you use this book alone or with a group. Learn:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">*How to follow Christ more closely.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">*God's unique purpose and mission for you.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">*How to overcome the evil that you have suffered at the hands of others.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">*To find God's presence in difficult times.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">*The keys to unleashing the power of the Cross in your life.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Day by day for five weeks, here are the prayers, the reflections, the stories, and the teaching that will help you not only better comprehend the power of Christ's great sacrifice for you, but come to a better understanding of why and how to accept that power now.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Michael Dubruiel was a writer and speaker. He was the author of The How-To Book of the Mass and several other books. He died in 2009.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Amy Welborn is the author of many books, including The Loyola Kids Book of Saints and The Words We Pray. Her website is http://amywelborn.wordpress.com</span>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-79626155592321893772024-02-28T01:30:00.000-06:002024-02-28T01:30:00.132-06:00Daily Lent Devotional<p> <a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/a-catholic-womans-book-of-days" target="_blank"> </a><i><a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/a-catholic-womans-book-of-days" target="_blank">The Catholic Woman's Book of Days</a> by </i>Amy Welborn would be a wonderful gift for any woman - mom, sister, friend. It's a 365-day devotional written for Catholic women - all Catholic women. It is loosely tied to the liturgical year, is a very handy size, and features special devotions for several saints. It is not structured to be tied to any particular year. So it’s sort of perennial.</p><br /><a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/a-catholic-womans-book-of-days" target="_blank">You can find more information and ordering information here. </a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://store.loyolapress.com/a-catholic-womans-book-of-days" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qs1ca45zmn4/VPXDlzVyWVI/AAAAAAAABqc/GX9fmwwt_GkicC6CBd4G8_Ov8yyW6t0AgCPcB/s16000/days.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" /></a></div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-74111080203422221482024-02-27T01:30:00.000-06:002024-02-27T01:30:00.131-06:00Dorothy Day on Lent<p></p><blockquote><p> <em style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheat, butter and honey, dates, wine and oil, mutton, calves, fish and quail–these are all mentioned in the Bible. Aside from feasts there was a monotony of diet that we should get back to for the sake of simplifying our lives, for the sake of being more truly poor with Him, for the sake of fasting, and for the sake of health. A handful of ground wheat with honey and milk on it makes a most delightful collation. A slice of whole wheat bread makes a fast day breakfast. You can buy a sack of wheat, a hundred pounds. You can live this way in city or country. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is Lent, and Lent is a wonderful time to begin again.</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Back in May, 1741, Pope Benedict XIV said: “If this observance of Lent comes to be relaxed it is to the detriment of God’s glory, to the dishonor of the Catholic religion, and to the peril of souls; nor can it be doubted that such negligence will become a source of misfortune to nations, of disaster in public affairs, and of adversity to individuals.”</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As in the days of the Old Testament, that prophecy of Pope Benedict XIV has come true with us.</em></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""dorothy day"" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHPsXypZaIJlo95pUtQji0A55aUM2-QosHq0rc9EqMwANPidZihxESnVM0WueT4BnwvZUtR-Kvtb2lzOFc1tc5RsCwgVgcAQEZWYBdcnexiWnXEV4y2dhLZcZ6HIOwOOwzxZ__NkJfO5yBwTUD-hDffwb63G0sZPO9jeKnSe2BFmymj3W-v0e/w320-h320/Add%20a%20heading%20-%20Copy.png" title=""dorothy day"" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-73892016539351705592024-02-26T01:30:00.001-06:002024-02-26T01:30:00.141-06:00Lent for Kids<p> In the <i>Loyola Kids Book of Seasons, Feasts and Celebrations, </i>Amy Welborn gives an introduction to all parts of the liturgical year, including Lent:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4871GxS" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="827" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IFUYbb6BZWpx87xWL6gYDpox7Z87TLQZkFxGd9fhkSfaPuB9iS7Gmjugolz_w7M8tIW6I8WlPrJ37WPjuMUyvZ0ObbWKvpKLCT2UB3EdaCrf1iBmdOlxXFye-8023FZX8QRN-TgaCYaiX6fQI7_oXW8zLYNwu6ag55-LzyKPwI4rl4EBUHpb/w224-h320/feasts-and-seasons.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="224" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4871GxS" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxBw6ZImIJ5m88wz-2KBXvMuQAXNL9LYB1aq9H-9D5tF9rti0GmjhVacRUM6NC-jfjK9OqiPkSEcaKdqVMO5vKKzwduAob-GJaFprtKvVMOx2Rls6os5quGCTIV8A9v6tWKyhzpv_uAPiNrcmxtmEWCMKO9o5splcqI2ONVk2WSYqLrzoiiHWH/w227-h320/amy_welborn-books2.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The liturgical year isn’t a concept to be taught; it’s a celebration to be lived and experienced! Award-winning author Amy Welborn shines a spotlight on our vibrant faith by centering children as active participants in the seasons and feasts of our Catholic calendar. This friendly and accessible sourcebook for children provides an inspiring and multicultural journey through the Church year with Jesus, Mary, and the saints. Along the way, children will learn exciting details about how Catholic holidays are celebrated around the world.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />From the Sabbath through Holy Week, from Ordinary Time through the Jewish feasts of our spiritual heritage, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Loyola Kids Book of Seasons, Feasts, and Celebrations </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">will enable children and adults to experience faith with curiosity and wonder.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4871GxS" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguMq79X0oSELAlIe4QCZOtxy67kmD8SOcnKkOLF5kIeH8ZyWzPTGnuPnBkOYs88mlTfBupdq6FSR-Fzj-iCuPivlW_YdGfbG2DSghbEESS33Nt2ikSTexBmidcU-V4oHoHYeM4utw87rG-CUqesEWKnvuZ8U2Yn8c4KvjNoxwNIAfMAjIFZx_/w227-h320/amy_welborn-books1.jpg" title=""amy welborn"" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133806.post-79234514317055529042024-02-25T01:00:00.001-06:002024-02-25T01:00:00.252-06:00Second Sunday of Lent<p> The account of the Transfiguration - today's Gospel - f<a href="https://www.loyolapress.com/general/loyola-kids" rel="noopener" target="_blank">rom <em>The Loyola Kids Book of Bible Stories</em></a> by Amy Welborn.</p><p><br />(What is below is the end of the story. The structure of every story is the same - a retelling, then an specifically Catholic application, Scriptural references, a reflection prompt and a prayer.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/amy-welborn1.jpg?w=250&h=485" title=""amy welborn"" /></a></div><p><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/lent/" target="_blank"><img alt=""amy welborn"" src="https://amywelborn.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/amy_welborn.jpg?w=242&h=485" title=""amy welborn"" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Written by popular Catholic children's author Amy Welborn, this beautifully illustrated collection of warm and engaging Bible stories for children and their families is arranged in a uniquely Catholic way—based on the liturgical year and the order in which they are proclaimed during Mass. Divided into five sections—Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, and Easter—each section is subdivided into Old and New Testament stories.<br /></div><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px;">From the Creation to St. Paul, the charming illustrations in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loyola Kids Book of Bible Stories</em>and Welborn’s friendly writing style turn reading the Bible into an experience that draws families closer together and deeper into the heart of the Church.</div>Amy Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183910226071592917noreply@blogger.com