Assistant Editor Ava Lalor shares how as the liturgical calendar transitioned from Lent into Easter, she had a hard time feeling ready to celebrate the season of resurrection. She writes: “Last Lent was very — ...
“This life is always pointing us home — to our true home,” writes Ava Lalor in her latest column about the tension of Holy Week. She continues: “And yet, we will always feel the tension ...
Ava Lalor writes how Lent is not often a season during which we focus on gratitude — especially in the middle of a pandemic. “This Lent, as the editorial board has written, feels in many ...
Ava Lalor shares how St. Joseph has always had a presence in her life through the witness of her own dad. While St. Joseph has become a special patron in recent years, Lalor can now ...
Ava Lalor reflects on how last Lent was different than usual. She writes: “It was a time of scrapping our own plans. Looking back, I honestly don’t know what I gave up or intended to ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes about how she never thought she would want to go to confession with a priest she also considered a friend. She writes: “I remember one of my seminarian [friends] making ...
Do you struggle with praying with Scripture? In her latest column, Ava Lalor shares a book that has guided her through the Advent and Christmas seasons and a podcast that she is using: “The Bible ...
Ava Lalor shares what door-to-door ministry taught her about availability and how she is making it her word of the year for 2021. She writes about availability, saying: “This doesn’t have to be complicated. It ...
“Always winter, but never Christmas.” In her latest column, assistant editor Ava Lalor reflects on the popular phrase from the classic children’s novel, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” As she writes in her ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor reflects on her experience as a young adult Catholic amid the second wave of the Church’s reckoning with clergy sexual abuse. She writes: “As a young adult who had then been ...
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