Holy Week Series: I am the light of the world.
"I am the light of the world." John 8:12 Right now the world is very dark. We feel alone, anxious, afraid. Some of us have been home for weeks, some…
Summer Spirituality Series: Call Me Blessed
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Summer Spirituality Series: Ponder
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Acts Passports
One of my least favorite things about religion textbooks is the fact that they are all designed with a once a week parish class in mind. In order for publishers…
Resources for teaching parables
One of my favorite units in our study of the New Testament is the unit on parables. Our textbook provides some good ways of looking at and categorizing parables, but…
Via Lucis
When reading through my Magnificat magazine this month, something caught my eye. The Stations of the Cross have always been one of my favorite Lenten practices, and I love the…
The Seventh Sorrow: Jesus is Buried
"After he had taken the body down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb in which no one had yet been buried."Luke 23:53…
The Sixth Sorrow: Jesus is placed in the arms of his mother.
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came…
The Fifth Sorrow: Jesus Dies on the Cross
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother."…
The Fourth Sorrow: Mary meets Jesus on the Way of the Cross
A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him. Luke 23:27 This post contains affiliate links. This means if you click through and purchase…