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

    By Emily Cortina

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  • Living the Stigmata Today

    By Sister Sarah Hennessey, FSPA

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  • Bumbling Toward the Economy of Francesco

    For over a year we met obstacles from all sides as we tried to get our six lender families on the same page for…

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  • Solidarity is a Way of Making History 

    By Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez

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  • The holy urgency of hospitality 

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • An Examination of Conscience: How Might We Take Capitalism Out of Being Catholic?

    By Annemarie Barrett

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  • Scapegoating Eve

    By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

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    Maura Rocks

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    Cassidy Klein

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  • The invisible, embodied holiness of parenting

    Emily Cortina

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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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  • 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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  • Fr. Roger Lopez, O.F.M.: Free, Good, and Helpful Grace
    Podcast: Play in new window | Download Episode 75 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Email | RSS | More Lord, help me to love just like…
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  • Hope the size of a hazelnut
    I don’t pray much anymore, in the traditional sense. But in times of trouble, there are certain recitations I return to. One I’ve been repeating lately comes from the Medieval…
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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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