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Come to Me
By Judie Brown Jesus says to each of us, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy, and My burden light.” The Lord is beckoning us to walk with Him, to trust in Him, but most of all to receive Him in the Eucharist, welcoming Him...
Mary, Full of Grace
By Judie Brown The mother of God, the Virgin Mary, is unstained by sin. She is, as Father John Hardon, SJ, explained, “a sign of contradiction because, humanly speaking, it seems contradictory to obtain by yielding; to get by giving.” He continues: Yet that is what...
One Single Life
By Judie Brown Today’s hyperactive milieu seems to erase any opportunity a person might have to reflect on the awesome gift of life, one’s own and that of each of those in his family, his sphere of influence, and the broader community. How often do any of us take a...
Planned Parenthood Lingo
By Judie Brown Lingo: a “language characteristic” Planned Parenthood’s world is full of deception, including the way it views those who disagree with its killing methods. Its staff have a particular way of talking about the human being that we like to think of as...
Triumph over Yourself
By Judie Brown Many years ago, American Life League’s spiritual director and dear family friend Father Denis O’Brien, MM, suggested to me that it would be wise to read one paragraph of Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ every day. At the time he said we might be...
The Powerful Impact of Fathers
By Judie Brown The word father embodies two distinct images for me. First and foremost is God the Father, and closely behind are the two most remarkable fathers I had in my life: my dad Chet and my beloved husband Paul. Each of these men embodied a love of their...
BAND-AIDs on a Murder Problem
By Judie Brown A BAND-AID is a temporary covering for a small injury that requires time to heal. The most well-known type of this injury is the skinned knee on a small child, whose mother affixes a BAND-AID after kissing the “owie.” But BAND-AIDs cannot fix all the...