I have been a bit “quiet” this week as I have been spending time each morning leading the Marian Consecration group as we make the journey to either make (or renew!) our Marian Consecration using the book, Child Consecration to Jesus Through Mary by Blythe Marie Kaufman. However, for those of you who have decided, or are unable to join me each day this month, here is a podcast episode for to help you continue to live out the fullness of this Easter Season. In this episode, I share Food for the Head, Heart, Hands and Feet that will help […]
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In this latest podcast episode, Christina shares Food for the Head, Heart, Hands and Feet that provides insights into how we can remain steadfast in our faith in the midst of challenges, and so we are prepared to share the cause of our joy with others during this Easter season. You can check out the entire episode here: Episode 62–Remaining Steadfast in Faith In The Midst Of Challenges May this podcast help to inspire, encourage and accompany you as you keep doing WHATEVER IT TAKES to embrace and SAY YES to holiness each and every day during this Easter season. […]
Third Week of the Easter Season is now upon us. We have celebrated both the Easter Octave and Divine Mercy Sunday. And this last Sunday, we heard the account of of Jesus’ Resurrection appearance to the Apostles in the Upper Room. The joy and peace of the season just continues to expand and grow, doesn’t it? This reality actually brings up a couple of questions–how might I share this great mystery with others? How can I share the peace and joy of the Resurrection with my loved ones and with those around me? So, this week we focus upon how […]
We are now into the Second Week of the Easter Season. We celebrated the great feast of Divine Mercy this last Sunday to conclude the great Easter Octave, and are now entered fully into the Easter season. So this week’s addition to the Connections Between Faith and Daily Life YouTube series focuses upon whether and how we might live a life rooted in the reality of the Resurrection. Make sure to watch: Are You Living A Resurrection Life? If we truly want to live a Resurrection Life, we need to be about several things, namely, professing our faith through deepening […]
In this podcast episode, Christina shares Food for the Head, Heart, Hands and Feet that provides ways for you to enter more deeply into the mysteries, joys and blessings of the Easter Season. You can check out the entire episode here: Episode 61–“Luxuriating In The Blessings Of The Easter Season” May this podcast help to inspire, encourage and accompany you in being able to keep doing WHATEVER IT TAKES to embrace and SAY YES to holiness during this Easter season. Listen to: Episode 61–“Luxuriating In The Blessings Of The Easter Season” Or you can check out this podcast interview here […]
SUPER excited for Part 2 of my interview on “At Home with Jim and Joy” to air today at 1:30pmEST. In case you missed Part 1, you can find it here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/at-home-with-jim-and-joy Hope you are able to join me in watching it!
He is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia! It is finally Easter! And we are now in the midst of the Easter Octave–a total of eight Solemnities in a row! No fasting, penance or mortification allowed! We are to feast and rejoice and be glad because Jesus has made all things new, and darkness, sin and death have power no more! So this week’s addition to the Connections Between Faith and Daily Life YouTube series focuses upon whether we are still rejoicing during this Easter Octave (and if we’re not, why we should be). Watch: Are You Still Rejoicing? In our world where […]
Today is my favorite day of the Sacred Triduum—Holy Saturday. Why you may ask? Because it is a day that is full of possibilities that we know are going to be made real. Very simply, we know darkness, sin and death are conquered. We know that Jesus will rise from the dead on Easter morning. We know the ending of the story. But often, I think knowing how the story ends makes us impatient. We want all the possibilities now. It’s like Christmas Eve and we want to open our gifts before we go to Christmas Eve service. But it’s […]
During this Holy Week, I thought it was especially appropriate to share this recent conversation that I had with K. Heidi Fishman. Heidi and I connected through a mutual friend on SmartCatholics, and was overjoyed to have the chance to have a conversation about her book, and her efforts within Holocaust education. Primary among those efforts was the writing of her first novel, Tutti’s Promise , which was published by MBPublishing in April 2017. She won the 2015 Joseph Zola Memorial Holocaust Educator Award from The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Hartford for the book proposal, and she continues […]
Holy Week is finally upon us! And with Holy Week comes the great challenge of living the great Triduum–Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, Easter–in the midst of a world that continues to move along as if there is nothing special about these days. Work deadlines still occur, school and sports activities continue to happen, family responsibilities are ongoing, etc., etc. etc. Bottom line, the world doesn’t stop because it’s Holy Week. But this week should look different if we are followers of Christ. Our very lives should be proclaiming the reality of what we profess–that Jesus is our […]