A Christmas Reflection I believe in Jesus Christ and the most wonderful, holy night when he came among us. I believe in the Savior of the world, born in a simple manger, a stable full of smells and disturbing noises.
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Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance, who recently returned from Amazon Rainforest, is the guest writer of the JPIC blog. Final Blog Entry: Epilogue What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. […]
Note: The blog was originally sent on Dec. 10. However, due to technical difficulties, some received an incomplete message, so it is being resent Dec. 12. Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance, recently returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the […]
Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance who just returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the JPIC blog. This is the fifth entry of the series. Her journey continues…
Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance who just returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the JPIC blog. This is the fourth entry of the series. Her journey continues…. On our way to the Andes, we stopped at the equator, the […]
Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance who just returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the JPIC blog. This is the third entry of the series. Her journey continues…. Having arrived in Quito one day early to acclimatize to the altitude, […]
I’d like to begin with a story. A friend of mine and a great friend of peace and justice, Rev. Dick Sering, worked for more than 30 years as a Lutheran minister in the city of Cleveland. His organization, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries (LMM) is one of the largest faith-based organizations dedicated to working with the […]
I love the saints. I actually can’t think of how to make our faith come more alive than to proclaim salvation history through the stories of the lives of a saints. I’d like to share a story withyou that provides a great answer to the question, “Who knows what a saint is?” A mom was walking […]
The Old Testament reminds us, “Without a Vision the people perish.” The Year of Faith began October 11, 2012 and ends on November 24, 2013, It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. During the year of faith, we […]
Until recently, at the end of our liturgy on Sunday, the priest said, “Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.” That command tells us our liturgy is ended, but we are now charged to go out into the world, to bring the good news and enflesh it in our daily life. Our great saint […]