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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

Jesus, King of Mercy: a reflection as the Year of Mercy Ends

Published November 22, 2016 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog

At this writing, I am in Corpus Christi for one of my favorite feasts of the Church year, Christ the King, and also for my birthday weekend, since I was born here. It was growing dark, raining and then storming when I got into town.  The bay was black, the water choppy; growing more restless… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published November 22, 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

Gazing at the Image or Icon of Divine Mercy

Published June 19, 2016 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

  What does gazing at an image or icon of Divine Mercy do for my mind, body, and soul? The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The beauty of images moves me [us] to contemplation…” (1162) So what is contemplation? “Contemplation is a gaze of faith, fixed on Jesus, ‘I look at him and he… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published June 19, 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

Longhorns Forging a Culture of Encounter In Our Own Backyard – CARITAS 2016

Published January 25, 2016 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Prayer, Social Justice, Young Adult

The week before classes started at UT this January, nearly 80 Longhorn Catholics came back to town early – to go out in mission. This is the 4th year of Austin CARITAS (Catholics Answering the Redeemer’s Invitation to Authentic Sanctity), where UT students give up a week of their winter break to serve those in need… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published January 25, 2016

The Door to Mercy – Knowing We Are Loved

Published December 14, 2015 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Marriage and Love, Prayer, World and News, Young Adult

  For the opening of the Year of Mercy, I was late to mass. Late to mass! Imagine, this great event, once in a Jubilee, and I had even planned ahead to get out of work early – and still I was late to mass, and very late. Walking up to the mass-in-progress, I slid into… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published December 14, 2015

A Jubilee of Mercy by Deed, Word, and Prayer

Published December 7, 2015 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

We are about to embark on one of the most important years of our present lifetime, the Jubilee Year of Mercy.  This year imparts a special grace that cannot be received twice.  These types of years don’t come often in the church’s history except every 25 or 50 years, so we need to take advantage… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published December 7, 2015

Bubble-wrapped Saints

Published November 2, 2015 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog

Bubble-wrapped saints? Let’s take in that image…bubble-wrapped saints! How ridiculous, right? Saints are brave, tough, warriors and queens who sweat through struggle and shed blood fulfilling the will of God, steadfast and stouthearted no matter how difficult the task! But wrapped in insulating bubble wrap…? But, if you think about it, if we carried our… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published November 2, 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

Open the Door of Mercy Homily

Published May 13, 2015 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith, Local Homilies

This homily was given at St Mary Cathedral in downtown Austin on May 7, 2015 in the 4th Week of Easter. Pope Francis Prayer for the Jubilee of Mercy Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published May 13, 2015

Homily on the Works of Mercy

Published May 4, 2015 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith, Local Homilies

This homliy was given at St Mary Cathedral in downtown Austin, TX on April 30, 2015 in the fourth week of Easter Jesus in the priest and in the deacon as servant. Homily based on the Gospel of John 13:16-20 The Corporal Works of Mercy Feed the hungry Give drink to the thirsty Clothe the… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published May 4, 2015

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