Jobs
Sarah Babbs

Dignity in Diapers

In the 9 months since our daughter was born, I have changed approximately 1,500 diapers. I’m not sure how much spit-up I’ve wiped (how could

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Prayer
Nathaniel Gotcher

Praying in the Streets

Living in Italy (and by extension, the European Union) puts a lot of perspective on things. For instance, we were told in our orientation for

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Family
Bonnie Engstrom

61 minutes

One year ago today I delivered my son, a stillborn.   For a moment he was placed in my arms quiet, blue, and limp.  The midwife

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What We Are.

Hi…I am a little nervous writing here which is kind of weird for me, since I don’t really get nervous. But when I was asked

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morningking
Prayer
Fabiola Garza

Morning Poem

Let me remember the waters that cleaned me, the fire that marked me and your beautiful love that so tirelessly sought me.

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Creation and Contingency

Would it be strange if I said that one of the people who helped to strengthen my faith in God is himself an atheist [1]?

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New Media
Marc Barnes

Music In The Liturgy

(The problem with the question of music in the liturgy is that people want an easy answer. They want one Church document that entirely bans

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Spirituality
Jennifer Mazzara

Donning the Liturgical Apron

My thanks to the blogosphere, which takes sufficiently little notice of me to complain when this post wasn’t published on time…three.  weeks.  ago.  Hurricane Irene

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The Child Jesus

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://ignitumtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Elaine-Golden-e1313149812584.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Elaine Golden is seventeen and absolutely loves drawing. She focuses on religious art using pencils and charcoals, but tries many new things. You

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Prayer
Sr. Lisa Marie

United in Prayer

  A letter from the Holy Father addressed to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan is circulating around the internet, and I thought it an appropriate reflection to

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the thing about nfp

Of course I’m not speaking for you, or all Catholics, or even my husband, but nfp is the hardest and easiest part of my marriage, my

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Religion
Colin Gormley

About that PR thing

A lot of talk and postings that I’ve come across (here and on other sites) talk about improving the Church’s “public relations.”  That is, people

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God Needs You!

Last month, my boyfriend’s grandfather died. The beauty of our Catholic faith never felt more exposed to me than with the passing of another believing

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A Pilgrimage, Not A Vacation

The following days were a blur of sessions at the Love and Life Centre, Morning Prayer with my group, spending time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, cheering for Pope Benedict, participating in Mass, and making friends with other pilgrims in the streets. I joined in a dance circle of Spanish pilgrims, traded knickknacks with South Koreans, and brushed up on my rudimentary Italian when squished against a group from Tuscany in the Metro.

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