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It is the Eucharist that Defines Us by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryThere is a growing trend of argument that having the absence of an anti-discrimination policy constitutes discrimination in and of itself; and there are groups and advocates (more…)

Walking and Waking in this 40 Day Desert by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryIt takes a lot of courage to enter into Lent, and then to be mindful that one has done so. I suspect it is a reason that many Catholics give up things like Chocolate or Diet Coke (more…)

The Posture of Prayer by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryWith my first name being Margaret, I appreciate the genius of Saint Margaret of Scotland’s prayer life that enabled her to glorify God while multi-tasking to manage her many children (6 sons, 2 daughters), and kingdom (more…)

Forty Days without Chocolate by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryI remember a friend one time saying that giving up chocolate for Lent was pretending to be in the forth grade.  I disagreed; it wasn’t what you gave up that made something a Lenten sacrifice (more…)

The Thin Curtain by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryA dear friend lost her father Saturday.  There are no words for the hole in her heart, in her life. This is an ache that will linger because when we experience the loss of a person, that thin veil between life and death seems impenetrable. (more…)

Tebow, the Superbowl and Commercials by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryPro abortion advocates are going insane over a 30 second ad by Heisman Trophy Winner, Pat Tebow and his mom. She was counseled to have an abortion of her fifth pregnancy because of serious medical complications. (more…)

Going to the March for Life for the First Time by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Jan 26th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryWhen we moved to Maryland back in the Winter of 1995, I wanted to go to the March for Life. It was a frigid January and with our only son not yet two, I let prudence dictate otherwise. (more…)

Marching Then and Now by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryThis week we celebrated  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Watching Dr. King’s most iconic “I have a Dream” speech on the mall, framed by the Lincoln Memorial, his words have lost none of their poetry (more…)

Source of All Our Comfort by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryAll suffering reveals who does even the littlest of things with great love. The Holy Spirit uses those moments when we are most anxious, most fearful, to call us to pray, to call others to pray, to call us to serve and others to act (more…)

Wanting Awe by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryMass two days after Christmas feels like too much church for some of my crew. As usual, my husband and I opted for the divide and conquere approach, with him and one of my older daughters sitting in the back with the youngest two.  (more…)

A Different Conversation with a Unicorn by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Dec 15th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryIt had been a long day and I was driving home from a meeting that had been of some value but still made the ride home late.  The gates at the train track came down and I sat in my car and fumbled with the radio (more…)

What Will It Mean? by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryThe laws have gone into effect and tax payers now finance embryonic stem cell research and the promotion of abortion abroad.  (more…)

Recognizing Christ in the Womb by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryThe County Council where I live is considering a regulation that would require pro-life pregnancy resource centers to tell new clients (more…)

Being Steeped in Advent by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryIn this time of economic uncertainty, it is hard to feel the lightness of the season.   And yet, God turns all things to His own end.  Without the money to keep up with the mythological Joneses, we should give more from the largess of our hearts.  (more…)

My Commencement Speech to My Children by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryParents don’t often get to give their children commencement speeches at graduation, but they do have the benefit of having produced a 18 year essay for their children revealing what they hope their children will hold in their hearts when they pack off for college.  (more…)

The Virtue of Routine Prayer by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryFor the past year, my husband and I have engaged in a variant of the discipline of Saint Bridgette, saying 15 Our Fathers and 15 Hail Mary’s every day.  It is designed to encourage souls to pray for the souls in Purgatory.  (more…)

Rare by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Oct 20th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryImagine a field of 50,000 flowers, all the same kind and all considered rare.  Now imagine people deciding they didn’t like the flowers.  Imagine whole crowds of people uprooting and burning and destroying all but 5000 one at a time. (more…)

Rewriting to get the Right Answer from the Heart by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryThe other day a woman meeting my whole family for the first time asked, “So are you done?” (more…)

Post Partum ABC’s by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryAs a mom of nine, who has had to fight to prevent the demon of post partum depression from entering into the equation, I crafted a formula I had to follow after each child.  (more…)

The Grace of a Pinched Nerve by Sherry Antonetti

By Sherry Antonetti • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Sherry Antonetti

antonetti_sherryOver the course of weeks, I’d been praying to be more responsive, more present, more loving to my daughter, to this one daughter with whom I seem to easily slip into having a cooler heart.  (more…)