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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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  • 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.”–…

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  • Father Dan Horan: The Beautiful Mess of Personhood

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  • How to be holy AND messy

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • Dear Aemiliana, Dear Sarah

    Note: Mother Aemiliana Dirr founded the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in 1849.  After difficulties fulfilling their mission, she and some other sisters left…

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  • Messy Christian music playlist

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • Franciscan Bookshelf: A Simplified Life: A Contemporary Hermit’s Experience of Solitude and Silence

    By K.P.

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  • Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

    By Eileen McKenzie

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  • Don’t close the door on hope! 

    By Eileen McKenzie

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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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  • 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 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. LISTEN HERE: IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode of Messy Jesus Business, Sister Julia Walsh…
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  • Father Dan Horan: The Beautiful Mess of Personhood
    In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh talks with Father Dan Horan about how he came to discover his vocation as a Franciscan, and they consider…
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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…
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  • Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Language of Lightness, Darkness and Love
    In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh and poet, public speaker, teacher and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama explore the light, the dark, and the infinite complexities of…
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  • Prayers for times like these
    For Peace  God of Unity and Peace,  Bless our longings for peace as we give you our heartaches and fears. Holy One, we beg you to soften the hearts of…
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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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