Greetings! Since we are in the midst of Lent, it’s probably appropriate to confess that I am WAY behind on getting out my latest 1 on 1 podcast interviews, but today begins my seeking to rectify that by sharing each of these wonderful interviews with you. The first conversation I have to share is one I had with Brian Caley of The Behold Project. Brian began The Behold Project as a way to help reduce the stigma of mental health issues and to raise awareness for Christians about those issues while seeking to create a space for those struggling with […]
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Greetings! This week’s addition to the Connections Between Faith and Daily Life YouTube series shares 3 easy ways for you to focus upon growing your interior life during the Lenten season. Enjoy watching, “3 Easy Ways to Grow in Our Interior Life This Lent” This week’s video highlights 3 easy ways for you to grow in your interior life this Lent–a set time of prayer, active mortification and passive mortifications, especially of the imagination, memory ad intelligence. All three ways are designed to ensure you grow interiorly throughout Lent, so be sure to check it out! Enjoy watching, “3 Easy […]
Hello to All! This week’s addition to the Connections Between Faith and Daily Life YouTube series shares five actions for you to consider when you are developing a Lenten Plan–especially important this week as we begin Lent THIS Wednesday! Enjoy watching, “5 Actions To Consider When Developing A Lenten Plan” This week’s video highlights 5 steps to consider that will help you incorporate the traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving into your Lenten plan as well as the 4 steps to holiness–daily prayer and meditation, living the life of grace, striving to grow daily in virtue, and abandoning […]
The 30 Day Unhackable Catholics Book Club has just concluded, and this week (February 8th), the First Things First Masterclass will be happening, so in this special episode, Christina focuses upon bringing all the themes from Unhackable, a book written by Kary Oberbrunner, to bear upon how we can experience an Unhackable Lent. This bulk of this podcast was originally done as a webinar (and the webinar is available on the Say Yes to Holiness YouTube Channel), but Christina added additional content to this podcast, particularly suggested resolutions for the week ahead, so make sure to listen all the way […]
In this episode, Christina provides some Food for the Head, Heart, Hands and Feet to help inspire and encourage you while discussing how we might SAY YES to God’s invitation to work alongside Him in the vineyard in our daily life to save souls and make saints on our own journey towards holiness. You check out the entire episode here: Episode 47–“How Can We Say Yes to God’s Invitation? May this podcast help to inspire, encourage and accompany you in being able to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep striving for holiness. Listen to Episode 47–“How Can We Say Yes to […]
The Say Yes to Holiness podcast is back! After several weeks off for family time and rejoicing during the Christmas season, and then spending time reformatting the technical backend of the podcast to try and serve each of you better, I finally got a new episode put together for your listening enjoyment. This week, I share the 5 themes that emerged from the recent Say Yes to Holiness Winter Summit: We have to begin with ourselves Need to strive to live in the Present Moment In Community to become our Best Selves It is through our ordinary lives/work that we […]
Greetings, Everyone! This message is a bit different from my usual ones, but it touches on how we can go about responding to the deep desires and yearnings that we all have in our hearts to make an impact in the world, reach our goals, and help others. In the midst of this pandemic, I think we have all become a bit more aware of those deep desires and longings, so my question to you is this: Do you now have an awareness that you are yearning to do something else with your life? Or perhaps you know that you […]
This week has been a rough one, hasn’t it? To that end, this week’s addition to the Connections Between Faith and Daily Life YouTube series focuses upon sharing how we can respond in a moment of national crisis. Enjoy watching, “This Is The Way—How To Respond In A Moment Of National Crisis” This video will give you 4 points to focus upon for how you can pursue the way in the midst of the challenges presented by the current climate in our country. Enjoy watching, “This Is The Way—How To Respond In A Moment Of National Crisis” Another way to […]
On this 12th day of Christmas, my gift to you are an assortment of resources, videos, blog posts, podcasts, and social media community links from the Say Yes to Holiness ministry. My hope is that they can help us be mindful of, and be entry points to dive deeper into understanding the twelve points of belief in the Apostles Creed–which the 12 drummers drumming represent in the Twelve Days of Christmas song. Those twelve points of belief in the Apostle’s Creed are: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord Who was […]
On this 10th day of Christmas, my gift to you revolves around the Ten Lords a Leaping–who in the Twelve Days of Christmas song are representative of the Ten Commandments. In addition, I also have had the privilege of praying and working alongside members of a women’s religious community that is very near and dear to my heart–the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word (SSeW) who are located at Casa Maria Convent and Retreat House in Irondale, Alabama. The Sister Servants of the Eternal Word is a public association of the faithful founded by Mother Mary Gabriel Long in 1987. […]