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With arms outstretched

Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 by Women of Grace Staff

February 16
"One of the favorite images I like to use for describing the Christian life is of a person standing with arms outstretched.  One hand, in faith and prayer, touches God; the other hand is extended in service to the neighbor.  Thus a person is cruciform, touching God and touching neighbor."
--Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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The Strange World of Falun Gong

Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by Susan Brinkmann

Falun Gong exercises taking place in Toronto (Image courtesy of Joffers951, Wikicommons, https://bit.ly/34XHzaf

RG writes: "I met a woman on a plane ride back from CA who told me about some 'exercises' her husband did 10 yrs ago which seemed to have cured his MS type debilitation [Guillian Barre]. It goes by two names- one is 'falun gong' another is 'falun dafa' and The Strbegan in China.  He had been unable to walk, could not work and was very depressed. After doing the exercises he regained movement and was healed. The doctors were stunned and said it was a complete recovery. There are meditation type practices as well. . . ."

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For the love of God

Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by Women of Grace Staff

February 15
"It is amusing to see souls who, while they are at prayer, fancy they are
willing to be despised and publicly insulted for the love of God, yet
afterward do all they can to hide their small defects; if anyone unjustly
accuses them of a fault, God deliver us from their outcries!"
-St. Teresa of Avila

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Love is the key

Posted on Monday, February 14, 2022 by Women of Grace Staff

February 14
“Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but
generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love
is not the pleasure it gives – that is the way the world judges it – but the joy
and peace it can purchase for others.”
–Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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Our Lady of Lourdes: Heaven Descends to Earth

Posted on Friday, February 11, 2022 by Guest Blogger

Our Lady of Lourdes hovers above statue of St. Bernadette at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes. (Photo from Wiki Commons, courtesy of Dennis Jarvis, https://bit.ly/3BaOVDA)

by Theresa Cavicchio

The months of February through July of 1858 marked a time of exceptional grace for the people of Lourdes, a town in the foothills of the Pyrenees in southern France. There, in an overgrown grotto, the Queen of Heaven and Earth appeared to a simple peasant girl.

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