As we approach All Saints Day, we highlight a few resources designed to challenge and entertain. Quiz: Which Saintly Dreamer Are You? Take a fun online quiz to learn which saintly dreamer you are. The quiz is inspired by A Catechism of the Strange: Stigmata, Relics, and the Miracles That Shape the Soul by W. […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

Have you ever felt lost, bewildered, or off-course in your journey through life? The classic literary expression of lostness is Dante’s, at the beginning of The Divine Comedy. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Who hasn’t felt this way? Perhaps […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

Editor’s note: We continue our series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 3. Review the day. In all my years of Catholic education, no one ever told me prayer could be getting […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

I step off my bike into a hole in the grass. Down I go; it is as simple as that. Everything happens in slow motion: the fall, the break as I reach out with my left arm, the visit to urgent care followed by the nine-day wait for surgery, and eight weeks of recovery. There […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

I grew up in a house that was well over a hundred years old. This house had a series of cast-iron radiators to keep it warm. During the winter months, the furnace would kick in and the heat and pressure would move the warmed water through the pipes and heat the house (when the furnace […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

Editor’s note: We continue our series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 2. Give thanks. Gratitude is the attribute of the Examen that makes it a prayer rather than a laundry list. […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

This past summer while on retreat I sat outdoors at breakfast, looking out at a beautiful garden of flowers and a blossoming tree near a statue of Mary. On the tree was a bird feeder attached to a branch. Beneath it I saw a chipmunk gathering seeds. There was a chickadee eating above the chipmunk, […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

“How many sign-ups do we have?” I asked excitedly at the start of the meeting. “One,” he replied. “Just one so far.” We were meeting to plan the next offering of a course on Ignatian spirituality, and “one” was a smaller number than I expected to hear so close to the start. The previous offerings […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

Editor’s note: Today we begin a series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 1. Ask God for light. “Ready for bed?” my husband asks at the end of each evening. It’s not […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.

Editor’s note: This week we bring to you a three-part mini-retreat devoted to reflecting on our individual and communal prayer. The retreat was written by Joe Paprocki, D.Min., author of 2027: A Book of Grace-Filled Days. The Lord’s Prayer Who is a famous person that you wish you could meet? Often, when the occasion arises […]

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Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2026–27 offers a beautifully simple way to grow in relationship with God and embrace the season of joy.