Following the theme of ‘we can’t control things outside ourselves,’ we’re needing to take a week off from the Advent Book Study of Interior Freedom and instead, we’re sharing something else… The 12 Days of Christmas!  Hoping that sharing this week gives you time to prepare a few ‘liturgical living’ activities but also gets you […]

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J1ST 099: 12 Days of Christmas

Welcome back from our Thanksgiving break and welcome into Advent!  We hope you had a beautiful “Turkey Day” and that the first week of Advent has been somewhat peaceful and prayerful. During Advent, we will be doing a three-part series on the tiny but powerful book, Interior Freedom, by Fr. Jacques Philippe.  If you don’t […]

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J1ST 098: Advent Book Study on Interior Freedom

There is a lot of talk in Catholic Circles about “Living Liturgically”. Now, living in sync with the seasons and feast days of the Catholic Church is AMAZING…but when I was a young Catholic mom, just discovering how to run a home, I was totally STRESSED about “Living Liturgically”. Why? Because I thought that to […]

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The Truth About Living Liturgically

Before researching and writing St. Paul’s School of the Word I had all sorts of WRONG ideas about St. Paul the Apostle. I mean, I liked and respected him, but St. Paul always seemed a little bit more, well, Protestant. Is that weird to say? It was just always easier to look at St. Peter […]

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St. Paul was Catholic