Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
By Nathan
In January, I attended my final session of the Alleluia School of Spiritual Direction. The topic of the two-week session was spiritual healing, and after Mass the first day, I ran into a friend who had already graduated from the…
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Article reprinted with permission from CatholicStand.com. A month or so ago, I started praying the Chaplet of the Holy Face of Jesus with my family. I’d never heard of this prayer before working for the Carmelites in Alexandria, SD, but they…
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Article reprinted with permission from CatholicStand.com. Rotten eggs explode. I learned the hard way. It all started when I moved our family out to the country. The house next to my in-laws came up for sale and we pounced. My…
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Article reprinted with permission from CatholicStand.com. For the past year, I’ve been working one day a week for a monastery of Carmelite Nuns smack dab in the middle of the North American Continent: Alexandria, South Dakota. There’s an old movie…
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Article reprinted with permission from CatholicStand.com. While eating an after-mass donut, I chatted with a friend who is vastly smarter than I am. He has a doctorate in genetics and does research at the local medical university on hemophilia. He…
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Originally published in the Southern Cross Magazine. Republished with permission. I’ve been a homeowner for a few years now, and I’ve discovered something that I never really thought about when I was an apartment dweller. Stuff breaks. If I shared…
By Nathan
I'm a charismatic Catholic who lives on the outskirts of nowhere. God has given me a wife, a family, and a mission to feed the hungry. These are my stories.
