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Where you do not want to go:
Reflecting on what it means to follow Jesus when living with dementia, through the lens of the Gospel of John (c) Jennifer Morrill-Fabrizi Dementia is an overall term for conditions that occur when the brain no longer functions properly. Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, results in problems with memory, thinking…
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Duty is gift
This post originally appeared at Aleteia.org on October 8, 2017 For a long time after reverting to Catholicism I would trip up over the idea of “duty”. Over and over again I’d read about discerning the will of God, and I’d consider that whatever God’s will for one’s life, it always included a sense of…
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Understanding Apparent Contradictions in the Living Word of God
(c) Jennifer Morrill-Fabrizi, 13 December 2022 Exiting the Circle The Catholic Church teaches that the entirety of Sacred Scripture is inspired by God and is inerrant, teaching everything that is necessary for salvation1. The Church teaches that God chooses to reveal himself to man out of love and in order to reveal his will2. The…
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How St. John Paul the Great taught me gratitude
“O infinite Goodness, You chose us to be Your creatures even before You gave us being; therefore, You could well say, ‘You have not chosen Me, for since you are nothing, you had no power to choose, but I have chosen you.’ You chose to make us Your creatures and to create us to Your…
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The Solution to the Long Loneliness? Love.
Pursued in plain sight It seems that anyone who has experienced a strong conversion or faith awakening can look back at their old life and see how God had been pursuing them in plain sight all along. For me, one of those things that planted a seed to draw me nearer to Him was Servant…
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Saying “I love you”
Featured Sunday, November 12, 2017 at Aleteia.org We love because He first loved us. – 1 John 4:19 My then 4-year-old came stumbling into my room that morning as I was swinging my legs over the edge of my bed, raising myself to a seated position. My husband and I both said hello to him…
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Finding life by the riverside.
No one warned me that getting a puppy and starting homeschooling in the same month would quite possibly be the death of me. We are all exhausted from this little fellow who wakes up in the middle of the night and takes forever to do his business outside but does it only too quickly on…
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A man went down.
Here is my latest post at Aleteia.org “A man went down into Jericho,” begins Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan. You probably know the rest. This man was beaten up by bandits and left for dead. Two upstanding members of the man’s community — a priest and an expert in the law — saw him,…
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Welcome, friend!
Welcome! Come in, rest a while! Thank-you for visiting. Peace and joy, beloved one! Jennifer