Columnists
Sean Connolly

Regret

“Live as though dying daily.” -St. Antony of Egypt, as recorded by St. Athanasius We have almost no viable perspective from which to evaluate our

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Columnists
Abigail C. Reimel

Not Alone: “Just Friends?”

The dreaded phrase, “I think it would be better if we were just friends“, has been feared by teenagers for decades.  The fear that, after

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Family
Family Missions Company

Man Enough? An Invitation to Mission

“Jesus is not an isolated missionary, he does not want to fulfill his mission alone, but involves his disciples.” – Pope Francis #Man Enough? from

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

Abnegation

Abnegation. To be honest until recently I had no idea what that word meant. And probably not surprisingly since it is an idea that isn’t common

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Columnists
Rachel Zamarron

Our Story

It all began on an average day at work. Morning schedule and then mass. I am blessed to work at a place where mass is

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Women's Issues
J.R. Baldwin

Proverbs 31: Woman of Action

There is a great fear among women that we are being under-appreciated. It’s not that we women want all the power; we just want credit

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Single Life
J.R. Baldwin

Christ, My Wingman

The morning after my future sister’s wedding, my fiance and I attended the family brunch and were asked the question: short or long engagement? B.

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Single Life
Elizabeth Hillgrove

Vocation Confirmation

Last year, Sr. Lisa challenged me to examine my vocation and I did… kind of. Tony called me on my bull you-know-what, correctly so. I spent the next while asking a lot of questions I never wanted to fully explore.

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Single Life
Rachel Zamarron

Living Our Vocations

Life has a way of coming up and tossing you the unexpected, and I encountered a new twist in life just recently when I got

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Single Life
Elizabeth Hoxie

Don’t Wait

The contributors here at Ignitum Today have been chatting a lot lately about improving our singles’ section. The idea is to give more attention, encouragement

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Date the Fat Guys, Ladies

In what can only be described as “true love,” I agreed to marry my fiance without ever dancing with him. Perhaps this seems impossible, improbable,

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Columnists
Julie Machado

Is Being Single a Failure?

A wise friend once asked me, “Do you want to marry him or do you just want to get married in general?” Am I really

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Ask Thugfang: Vocations

His Right Dishonourable Loathsomeness, Master Thugfang, is a demon of great infamy among academic circles. He is a frequent columnist for “Tempter’s Times”, an assistant

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nets catch vocation
Columnists
Anna Williams

God’s will for you

In keeping with my tradition of quoting other people in order to come up with a blog post, I want to discuss a piece someone

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Columnists
Sr. Lisa Marie

Must We Like Each Other Equally?

This week, as part of vocations week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Fr. Jason Vidrine‘s middle school class in Louisiana (via Skype),

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Spirituality
Allie Terrell

When Is Prudence Prudent?

I once heard Father say in a homily that no saint was ever canonized for being prudent. He went on to explain that it is

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Life
Sr. Lisa Marie

Wasted for Love

A couple of weeks ago, in the post, A Path to God, we considered the painful truth of discernment of religious life (or priesthood), and

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