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Stephanie Ann Patka Mahoney
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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Your Red Sea Moment
The call came unexpectedly on a normal Wednesday afternoon. Normal, being a relative word in this case, because my work team was at the...
Jun 20, 20223 min read


Reading in 2022
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story. - J.R.R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien The...
Jan 7, 20224 min read


St. Jerome: The Cranky Translator
“Read assiduously and learn as much as you can. Let sleep find you holding your Bible, and when your head nods let it be resting on the...
Sep 30, 20213 min read


2021's List of Literature
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of...
Sep 21, 20214 min read


Reading the Bible in a Year
The most widely sold and arguably most impactful books that has ever been published in the history of mankind is the Bible. The story of...
Sep 15, 20214 min read


How our seats during Mass helped me pray
We are creatures of habit and where my husband Jeff and I sit during Mass is certainly a reflection of that: second section from the...
Jan 1, 20212 min read


The 7 Stop Pilgrimage
My family has enjoyed traditions for almost every holiday of the year, liturgical and otherwise, since I was young. Last year, however,...
Mar 29, 20174 min read


Today will be over before you know it. Don't waste it.
I have had the same conversation more than 4 different times in the past two days. It goes a little something like this: Me: "Hey friend,...
Nov 8, 20167 min read


Bishop Rhoades is fixated — on what matters.
(An abbreviated form of this letter was printed in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette on May 29, 2016.) Ted Remington wrote a Letter to the...
May 28, 20166 min read


"See you on the radio"
I know, I know. You can't actually SEE me on the radio. That's the delicious irony of the phrase, long used by a dear friend & Elkhart...
May 24, 20162 min read


Why the Catholic Church needs to take communications seriously
“The Church needs to be present in the world of communications in order to dialogue with people today and help them encounter Christ.”...
May 17, 20165 min read


A New Assignment
"There is one that will be a shocking surprise." "I bet that Father will be moved, I saw him in his office on the phone looking very...
May 14, 20163 min read


This isn't my blog. I just write it.
After talking about, and planning for it and talking more and making a list to talk and plan more, I finally did it. I created my very...
May 10, 20162 min read
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