Catholic Review

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Laura Kelly Fanucci

Laura Kelly Fanucci is an author, speaker and founder of Mothering Spirit, an online gathering place on parenting and spirituality. "Faith at Home" appears monthly at OSV News.

Kids need lots of people who love them


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Youth Ministry

From lifelong commitments to the children we love, to volunteering with kids who need extra support, to simply opening our hearts to the delightful (if sometimes distracting!) presence of the young church with us at Mass, God gives us many ways to care for the children in our lives.

Walking the Emmaus road as a family


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter

The road to Emmaus reminds us that Christ goes with us everywhere, walking and talking among us: in our conversations and debates, in ordinary meals and sacred liturgies, in journeys near and far. Our hearts burn within us, too, whenever we realize he has been right next to us all along.

Every dawn an Advent, every day a New Year


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OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary

Each day we stand before the doors of chronos and kairos. We can enter into the frantic, fast-paced, nonstop rush of consumerist culture, with its endless urgent cries of “buy, buy, buy” and “more, more, more.” Or we can turn and open another door, the quieter way of faith.

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