When I was nine, I stole a big, fat, sugary Boston cream pie from the refrigerator and ate the entire thing behind the trees in the backyard. It wasn’t mine to take. We didn’t have the open-frig, eat-when-you-want policy that children have today—and we never had desserts that looked like that. But even worse, I […]
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REFLECTING ON THE 7 DEADLY SINS: GREED
“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough,” wrote the Dutch crime novelist Janwillem van de Wetering. This week I’m looking at the sin of greed, making it the basis of an examination of conscience and pairing it with the second penitential psalm in my lenten […]
PRAYING THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS: 2nd Friday of Lent – Psalm 32
When I set out to read the penitential psalms this Lent, I expected them to draw me into dust and ashes, into mourning for my sins. I still think that – but what a surprise to read the second one, Psalm 32, and find myself lifted into joy! Here, then, is the reason for this […]
FLOURISHING IN DROUGHT PART 4: SOAKING IN THE WORD
You’ve heard the old saying – you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink! Well, it’s the same with us and the Word: you can hear Scripture read at mass, and go to Bible studies, and even read the Bible every day — but if you just let it wash […]
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A WAY TO “GO DEEPER” THIS LENT?
Lent is right around the corner, and this year I want to do more than simply give up wine or sweets or facebook. Something Pope Francis said in his recent message for Lent struck me in a new way: “… wherever we go, we are called as Christians to proclaim the liberating news that forgiveness […]
FLOURISHING IN DROUGHT, PART 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SOIL
My last post looked at the “secret of the tree” that flourishes even in drought because it is planted by the living waters of the Word. In the parable of the sower, Jesus paints another picture to help us understand not just the power of the Word, but the conditions that are needed for it […]
MARY, STAR OF THE NEW EVANGELIZATION
Reflection on Evangelii Gaudium, nos. 284-288
Two months ago, I stood at the foot of the Cross – literally, at the spot where Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem. Golgotha lies within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and it is crowned by an altar and chapels dedicated to the final Stations of the Cross. You can reach below the altar and […]
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About Sarah Sarah Christmyer is a Catholic author, Bible teacher, and speaker with a special love for lectio divina and journaling as ways to draw close to Christ in Scripture. She is general editor of the Living the Word Catholic Women’s Bible from Ave Maria Press, as well as the co-developer and founding editor of […]
ADVENT IS HERE: WAKE UP!
The snow crunches as I walk and everything is quiet. Bare trees stretch toward the sky and gather morning sunshine in their branches. Advent is upon us and I didn’t see it coming. Like the trees, I need to reach to heaven. He is coming! How can I prepare? Lucky for me, the Church anticipates […]
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