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  • How to be holy AND messy
    To contemplate the sacredness of messiness, start with the natural world. Step into the forest and study the rotting logs. Examine the erosion. Notice the tiny and the grand, how transformation and evolution have designed the landscapes, and the simple and small. See the surrender of one creature to another, the wildness of complete metamorphosis…
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  • Courageous countercultural choices inspired by St. Francis

    This weekend, throughout the world, Franciscans will gather to celebrate the feast of our founder, St. Francis of Assisi. On Friday evening we’ll pray…

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  • Hoverboards, driving lessons, friendships and the common good

    By greg little

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  • My celibacy is steeped in a whole lot of love

    By Sister Sarah Hennessey, FSPA

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  • “Good Inside”: A restorative Christian approach to parenting and beyond

    By Emily Cortina

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    Hoverboards, driving lessons, friendships and the common good

    The sun was setting as we wrapped up a delicious meal at a local park with some new family friends. A couple of the…

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  • My celibacy is steeped in a whole lot of love

    By Sister Sarah Hennessey, FSPA

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  • Sister Christa Parra: Accompanying At the Border

    By Colin Wambsgans

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  • Toddler Tantrums and the Kingdom of God

    By nicolio13

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  • Casting away demons

    By Emily Cortina

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  • Preserving Dangerous Memories 

    Maura Rocks

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  • Rules for a messy and holy creative practice 

    Cassidy Klein

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  • The invisible, embodied holiness of parenting

    Emily Cortina

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  • Sister Christa Parra: Accompanying At the Border
    Podcast: Play in new window | Download Episode 62 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Stitcher | Email | RSS | More “Whoever is in front of us we are called to love.” -Sister Christa Parra IN THIS EPISODE For this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh chats with an old…
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  • How to be Hot for God
    Being Christian is not for sissies, I have heard some say. We must be bold, courageous and purposely enter into experiences of encounter that might make the average person squirm….
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  • Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki
    “Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you … for when you die, it will be without honor.” ~ Master Splinter, to the Shredder,…
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  • Tessa Bielecki: The Mystery and the Mess
    Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | Email | RSS “Let yourself be broken. Let yourself suffer. Cling to Christ through it.”– Tessa Bielecki Season 4, Episode 6…
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  • Living the Stigmata Today
    For years in the depths of depression I had constant thoughts of not wanting to live any longer. This suffering felt tragic and senseless. I could not see a future….
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  • Yo Soy Una Guadalupana (I Am A Guadalupana)
    Posted by guest blogger, Sister Sarah Hennessey A Story of Marta “I’m nervous because I’m here illegally.” Marta held out her arm for a blood pressure check. The nurse in the free clinic and I quickly reassured her that everything was confidential and she had nothing to fear. Marta continued, “I’m nervous because I am illegal…

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