Julie Storr

Episode 5: The Preface for the 4th Sunday of Lent

March 14th, 2023  |  5 mins 2 secs

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Episode 3: 3rd Sunday of Lent Prayer over the Offering

March 7th, 2023  |  5 mins 41 secs

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The power of forgiving

2nd Sunday of Lent - Prayer Over the Offering

March 1st, 2023  |  3 mins 53 secs

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When we meet the divine
Going to mass isn’t a horizontal experience. It is a vertical one. While still on earth, we are allowed to be partakers of heaven.
Better yet, there’s nothing we have to do to earn it. All we have to do is receive. As I reflected on it, the basis of the Christian life is about receiving.
Sure, we are called to give, but how can we give what we haven’t received?

1st Sunday of Lent - Prayer After Communion

February 22nd, 2023  |  4 mins 51 secs

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I tell ya, the Roman Missal never disappoints. As I meditated on this prayer, the Prayer after Communion for the first Sunday of Lent, I didn’t know what to pray for first: greater virtues or greater desire for the true and living bread.