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The Older Sibling Comes Back

Published April 25, 2018 • Written by Norine Shaivitz Filed Under: Blog

I recently went on a retreat that gave me a great deal of joy and then a great deal of pain. I was on the mountain. And then I fell off. Among other things, Father Charlie Garza’s day retreat focused on the seven deadly sins – how to recognize the false gods within them and… [Read More]

Written by Norine Shaivitz • Published April 25, 2018

What Would Padre Pio Say?

Published March 29, 2017 • Written by Norine Shaivitz Filed Under: Blog

Have you ever been to confession with Padre Pio? I think I have. Someone asked me to pray a novena to Padre Pio for an intention. I love novenas. Not everyone does. But I love them. As long as I had him on the phone for that intention, I asked him about a few other… [Read More]

Written by Norine Shaivitz • Published March 29, 2017

Tis Humility

Published December 26, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Faith, Family, Prayer, Young Adult

A remark during the homily at midnight mass really struck me. The priest reflected how each Christmas is different, not because the Gospel story changes -indeed the story is everlasting – but because we come to Christmas each year a little bit different. Each year we bring with us the lived experiences of the whole past year…. [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published December 26, 2016

An Age of Mercy & Misericordia et Misera

Published November 21, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog

Last Sunday as we were celebrating the closing of the Year of Mercy around the Diocese, my friend and I were talking about how we were kinda sad to see the Year of Mercy end. She turned to me and said – you know how we had the age of Enlightenment? And the age of the… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published November 21, 2016

Therese of Lisieux & The Marian Jubilee of Mercy

Published October 3, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Faith, Marriage and Love, Prayer, Young Adult

It’s possible that St Therese of Lisieux is one of those saints of whom we hear so often that we think, well, we already know that story – next! Yet I think we often only capture her “slogan” of childlikeness, and in skipping over it, we miss the profound and prophetic truth manifested in her life…. [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published October 3, 2016

Mercy: The force that overcomes everything (Or, thoughts on how to get unstuck)

Published June 27, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog

Have you ever been in one of those arguments where you get sucked into the back and forth, like a frenzied game of tug-a-war? Except no one is playing, and in fact the whole emotional environment feels weighty and overly serious, like we’re arguing about way more than the dishwasher all of a sudden. Sometimes… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published June 27, 2016

Mercy, Justice, and the Truth (Review: “To Render the Deeds of Mercy”)

Published May 24, 2016 • Written by Lindsay Wilcox Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Reviews

I don’t understand the Jubilee Year of Mercy, but I’m trying to. I love learning, so, as I said on my panel during the ATX Catholic Retreat, I’m taking this year as an opportunity to learn what mercy means. I encounter tons of media already, so my learning mostly consists of keeping my eyes and… [Read More]

Written by Lindsay Wilcox • Published May 24, 2016

Mercy and Technology Panel

Published May 12, 2016 • Written by ATX Catholic Filed Under: Events, Social Media and Tech

This audio is from the first panel at the ATX Catholic Day of Reflection 2016 at Our Lady of Schoenstatt Shrine in Austin, TX on April 30, 2016.   Moderator: Rachel Gardner Panelist: Trenton Hendrichson, Lindsay Wilcox, and Brandon Kraft Panel 1 – Mercy and Technology What does the Jubilee of Mercy mean to you?… [Read More]

Written by ATX Catholic • Published May 12, 2016

Weeping For Our Sins

Published March 9, 2016 • Written by William Rooney Filed Under: Blog

An older friend, whom I consider a mentor, once told me, “there is no shame in weeping. Crying only means that we have loved and continue to love something or someone.” We weep on occasions when, from our human perspective, the beloved is irretrievably lost. We weep at evil; evil and it effects, committed by… [Read More]

Written by William Rooney • Published March 9, 2016

Sunday Says – March 6, 2016 Mass Readings and Reflection

Published March 5, 2016 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Sunday Says

March 6, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Lent Lectionary: 33 (NAB Translation)   The fourth Sunday of Lent is known at Laetare Sunday when we lighten the violet just a little to the shade of rose and celebrate that we are now only 3 weeks away from Easter. We are past the halfway mark, and we… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published March 5, 2016

The Mystery of Iniquity – Rejoicing in weakness

Published February 22, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Young Adult

Each Lent it seems I come back to this theme – how do we think about sin and weakness? It’s been helpful for me to examine my own understanding – I can’t make much sense of redemption if I have a distorted view of the sin and weakness that necessitated such a Savior. And an unhealthy view… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published February 22, 2016

Paul, Mercy, and Providence

Published February 8, 2016 • Written by William Rooney Filed Under: Blog

Recently God has inspired me, through a variety of means to reflect on the action His merciful providence in my life. I have made many mistakes in my life. I have done and said things that have hurt my communion with others and with God. I have at times, with varying degrees of my will,… [Read More]

Written by William Rooney • Published February 8, 2016

Saint Maria Goretti in Texas and Basics on Relics

Published November 4, 2015 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Faith

Texas has been blessed to get a unique saintly visitor this week. The Pilgrimage of Mercy has been traveling the country in preparation for the Jubilee of Mercy, and the bones of St Maria Goretti are traveling for the faithful to venerate and ask for her intercession. I went to visit her in Dallas, but… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published November 4, 2015

Spit, Mercy and the Human Spiritual Life

Published September 9, 2015 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog

What is it about Jesus spitting, putting his fingers in the deaf man’s ear? It hits on something within us, pulls on something. Some inner notion of cleanliness, of boundaries, of unworthiness. It’s uncomfortable. Unusual. Certainly not how we would expect the God-man to act. Now – to bow at his feet, to stand at… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published September 9, 2015

Love Seeking Justice and Mercy (Review: “Change of Heart”)

Published June 9, 2015 • Written by Lindsay Wilcox Filed Under: Reviews, Social Justice

I do not support the death penalty. I don’t think any Catholic ought to, although I respect the option Catholics have within our tradition to do so. The Catechism of the Catholic Church notes that, in the modern world, sufficient means exist to contain dangerous criminals indefinitely without ending their lives, so the cases in… [Read More]

Written by Lindsay Wilcox • Published June 9, 2015

Pope Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy Message

Published April 17, 2015 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith, Local Homilies

Pope Francis released the Papal Bull of Indiction of the Year of Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy titled Misericordiae Vultus on Saturday April 11, 2015. This homily was given by Deacon Guadalupe at St Mary Cathedral in downtown Austin, TX.  

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published April 17, 2015

Four Attitudes of Evangelical Parenthood: A Non-Judgmental Warmth and Welcome

Published April 10, 2014 • Written by Trey and Stephanie Cashion Filed Under: ACNM, Column

Judge not, that you be not judged (Matthew 7:1) The last attitude of evangelism laid out by Pope Francis is a non-judgmental warmth and welcome.  As parents, our children need to know that we love them regardless of what they do.  They need to know that they can come to us about anything and that they… [Read More]

Written by Trey and Stephanie Cashion • Published April 10, 2014

Purgatory – A Sign of God’s Mercy and Hope for All Saint-Hopefuls

Published November 3, 2011 • Written by Maria Huemmer Filed Under: ACNM, Blog, Faith, Young Adult

So I knew coming into this post that I was going to be writing after a few others had their pick of All Saints and All Souls topics. But my blog is about becoming a Saint! And we can never learn too much about them, right?So, let us place ourselves in God’s presence, and the… [Read More]

Written by Maria Huemmer • Published November 3, 2011

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