What Are You Going To Do About It?
Dom Cingoranelli
March 1, AD2026
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“But what are you going to do about it?” The question was posed by a confessor from the Fathers of Mercy after discussing a bad
Conquer the Demons of Sadness
Dom Cingoranelli
July 6, AD2024
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Do you occasionally experience a sense of sadness—a palpable sense of heaviness weighing you down? If you’re feeling beat down or unhappy, where’s that coming
Discernment and Why We should Discern
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer
April 4, AD2024
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A little more than a year ago, Pope Francis finished a series of fourteen Wednesday audiences dedicated to the theme of discernment. The series seems
Desolation
Sydney Sadowski
July 15, AD2022
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In Ignatian spirituality, there is something known as consolation and desolation. Very simply put, Consolation is when we feel the closeness of God. Grace abounds
Self-Awareness, God’s Grace, and Your Freedom
Dom Cingoranelli
March 5, AD2022
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How’s your self-awareness? Do you struggle with some area of life you think you can never change? Is there some repeated pattern of thinking or
Conquer Bad Attitudes Before They Conquer You
Dom Cingoranelli
August 3, AD2021
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Conquering bad attitudes may require more than simply changing your thinking. Bad attitudes can be caused, or at least exacerbated, by the devil. Just think
Covid Anxiety Continues to Imprison Many
Dom Cingoranelli
May 5, AD2021
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Anxiety continues to imprison many, even with the reopening of much of our country. I recently ran across an acquaintance from my parish in a
Mother Mary Clare’s Four Obstacles to Prayer
Nicholas Vance
October 23, AD2020
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If you’re anything like me, you struggle in prayer. And not struggle in the sense of just trying to find the time. The struggle is
Is There Hope in God’s Providence During Desolation?
Matt Chicoine
January 12, AD2018
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December 13th—the Feast Day of St. Lucy, I stood aside a grave of another unborn child. It is unnatural for a father to bury his
A Sorrowful Mystery: Peace By Way of Desolation
Charlie Johnson
October 21, AD2015
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A dangerous prayer At the beginning of this Christian journey, a blossoming new-life ethic was not overwhelming, but it was hard. It was a light
A Difficult Lent
Autumn Jones
April 15, AD2015
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“We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning
Why Is Today Significant?
Autumn Jones
August 12, AD2013
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As a grad student in journalism, a number of my assignments come in the form of responding to a question, by way of an essay,
