Comments for On the Journey https://www.diennodemarest.com Cultivating Lived Faith Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Comment on Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops by Best supplements https://www.diennodemarest.com/2019/03/18/cardinals-archbishops-and-bishops/#comment-68507 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:01:16 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1899#comment-68507 It’s hard to come by knowledgeable people for this subject, however, you sound like you know
what you’re talking about! Thanks

]]> Comment on Workings of the Spirit Part 1: A Series of Uncanny Coincidences with Impeccable Timing by Julie Dienno-Demarest https://www.diennodemarest.com/2013/07/22/workings-of-the-spirit-part-1-a-series-of-uncanny-coincidences-with-impeccable-timing/#comment-55696 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:21:59 +0000 http://momiliesandmore.com/?p=538#comment-55696 What a wonderful surprise! Great to hear from you! Thank you!! With two teens and teaching, I don’t have a lot of time to write, so my posts are very few and far between. I need to get back to it!

So sorry to hear about your daughter and grand child. I pray for your peace and healing of heart.

Take care!

]]> Comment on Workings of the Spirit Part 1: A Series of Uncanny Coincidences with Impeccable Timing by Susan LiVolsi https://www.diennodemarest.com/2013/07/22/workings-of-the-spirit-part-1-a-series-of-uncanny-coincidences-with-impeccable-timing/#comment-55693 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:42:47 +0000 http://momiliesandmore.com/?p=538#comment-55693 Hi Julie,
Love reading your work
Holy Spirit led me here tonight
I was sending your mom( who I miss) happy birthday message, and thought “ wonder how Julie is?” Spent the next hour reading your story and looking for other things you have written.
I admit, I’m hooked.
I’ve needed this after the year we’ve had ( losing out grand baby and almost our daughter Kana , when her uterus burst at 37 weeks.
Looking forward to reading more and caring up with you. I can’t believe max and Sam are grown up!
Blessings to you, Susan

]]> Comment on Give Some Love by Nicolas Gallagher https://www.diennodemarest.com/2014/10/21/give-some-love/#comment-53007 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 06:42:51 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1263#comment-53007 hey there, touching story, love your book, and tell max to have a good time in highschool next year (sad he has to leave BAMH) thanks for the peace

]]> Comment on Courage, Grace, and Mama Bear by Jackie Dufield https://www.diennodemarest.com/2019/07/30/courage-grace-and-mama-bear/#comment-52294 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 03:50:36 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1965#comment-52294 Julie, what a beautiful article. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been for Alex and you both. Thank you for the reminder of the grace that Mary our Mother gives us.

God bless you and Alex. I pray that his healing has gone well.

Jackie

]]> Comment on Reflecting on the Litany of Humility by Julie Dienno-Demarest https://www.diennodemarest.com/2019/05/16/reflecting-on-the-litany-of-humility/#comment-47934 Sat, 23 Jan 2021 23:08:54 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1906#comment-47934 I hear what you’re saying, in as much as we are social by our very nature. God is a community of Three Persons; we are created in God’s image and likeness (Gen 1:26-17); we need community. But there is a difference between love as an active verb (something you do or generously give) and the “desire to be loved.” The “desire” indicates an inordinate focus on receiving – on what I can get out of the experience. I read it as a selfishness or neediness, as opposed to grounding oneself in God’s love with confident knowledge of being loved by the Creator of the Universe. I read it as struggling with “needing to be liked.” So it’s never a question of being loved, it’s petitioning God to be delivered from a self-centered desire.

Please let me know if that clarifies (and resonates) or if I misunderstood your comment.

]]> Comment on Reflecting on the Litany of Humility by Bill https://www.diennodemarest.com/2019/05/16/reflecting-on-the-litany-of-humility/#comment-47921 Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:48:43 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1906#comment-47921 I struggle with the line “From the desire of being loved.” The context of this litany seems to be in our relationship to others, so it seems we should not desire to be loved by others. This seems contrary to our human nature. We all want to love and to be loved at the human level.

]]> Comment on “The Rose” by Having Hope in a Time of Crisis https://www.diennodemarest.com/2014/10/06/the-rose/#comment-42562 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:40:25 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=1222#comment-42562 […] Rose: Every night, when we gather for family dinner, we pray “The Rose,” which is a family-friendly, loose adaptation of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Examen. I have always […]

]]> Comment on How Are You? by Julie Dienno-Demarest https://www.diennodemarest.com/2020/03/27/how-are-you/#comment-42497 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:33:18 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=2040#comment-42497 Thanks, Anne! Yes – that line from Henri Nouwen is so powerful. What a profound truth for us all today.

]]> Comment on How Are You? by Ann-Marie Ulczynski https://www.diennodemarest.com/2020/03/27/how-are-you/#comment-42495 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:11:17 +0000 http://www.diennodemarest.com/?p=2040#comment-42495 Thank you for being real. It automatically gives others permission to do the same. I’m reading The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen for lent. Just this morning I read, “It is very hard to just be home and wait.” I took that as a small hug from God at being seen in this difficult time.

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