Sarah Raad
Atonement
God understands that I am weak and cannot atone for my own sins, and so He sacrificed Himself for me – for only God can make atonement.
Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
Reflections on Faith, Hope & Love.
Love letters to the King...
Sarah Raad
Freelance Writer
When my little niece was born with a rare and severe congenital heart defect, we had no hope other than to prostrate ourselves at the Foot of the Cross and beg for prayers. Somehow, in the days and weeks and months that followed, by Grace and the Infinite Goodness of God, my faith, the size of a mustard seed grew into a tree. Now I pray that this faith, which is such a new and glorious gift for me, will shelter others and give them hope in the Goodness and Love of God.
Sarah Raad
- a day ago
- 3 min
Donkey
If I submit to God’s Holy Will I could bear Him into the new Jerusalem – which for me is my Family, my home, my workplace, and among friends
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Sarah Raad
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
Symbiosis
The corn would not grow as tall and the beans would not reach as far if there was no winter squash like me in the Garden of God…
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Sarah Raad
- 3 days ago
- 3 min
Opposites
“Imagine what the pain of a soul to whom God has revealed some of His heavenly treasures must be when it finds itself still a pilgrim..."
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Sarah Raad
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
Consideration
And God loves us so perfectly and so unimaginably that He made Himself like us – weak miserable lowly us – just so that we could become a...
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Sarah Raad
- 5 days ago
- 3 min
Discoveries
“Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth…’”(John 18:37)
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Sarah Raad
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Omissions
“The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” (Pope Benedict XVI). I have been...
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 12
- 5 min
Nets
“So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.” (John 16:22).
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Dialogue
“…In silence He listens to us; in silence He speaks to our souls. In silence we are granted the privilege of listening to His voice.”
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 10
- 4 min
Singing
With surgery there is a period of recovery, and it is the same with the reception of God’s Grace, which should be followed by reflection.
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Worthiness
“Only one thing in life matters: Being found worthy of the Light of the World at the hour of His visitation.” (Venerable Fulton Sheen).
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 8
- 4 min
Parking
“I do not love You because You can give me paradise or condemn me to hell, but because You are my God. I love You because You are You.”
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Steering
For it is only with God as our guide that we have any chance at all of being able to steer ourselves home…
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 5
- 3 min
Council-Collections
If council-collections make everything feel so fresh and new and clean, can you imagine what the sacraments do?
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Waste
“When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.” (Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta).
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 3
- 3 min
Umbrella
"Immediately they left their nets and followed Him... Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.” (Matthew 4:18-22).
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 2
- 4 min
Role Models
“You will have nothing on which to judge me, and we shall meet on that day: Love and mercy.” (Saint Faustina, Diary 1426).
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Sarah Raad
- Jan 1
- 4 min
Everest
“What pleases Jesus is that He sees me loving my littleness and my poverty, the blind hope that I have in His Mercy. " (St Therese Lisieux)
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Training
“It is necessary to understand that the whole of our lives must be an ‘advent’, a vigilant awaiting of the final coming of Christ.”John Paul
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
Continuity
“The name of that river was suffering: And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river, and the name of that boat was love.” StJohn
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Bouquets
“A slight cut of the sabre will separate my head, as a spring flower that the Master of the garden picks for His pleasure.” (St Théophane).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
Blister
Time provides us with the opportunity to become used to the pain of our loss so that its sharpness no longer winds us, but it merely wounds
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
Breastfeeding
The reality was that God was holding me against His Holy Breast as a mother holds her child…
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 25, 2021
- 3 min
Symphony
In His perfect composition of the symphony God created everything to be GOOD…
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 24, 2021
- 4 min
Hustle-and-Bustle
One such as He, became INCARNATE and was BORN to DIE for love of one such as me…
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
Stable
Handmaids are servants. And servants do not ask questions of their master. Handmaids simply obey!
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 22, 2021
- 4 min
Prayer
“Love Our Lady and she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.” (Saint Josemaria Escriva).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
Ordinariness
“The most ordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” (G. K. Chesterton).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
Refashioning
“Whether we know it or not, the actions of our daily life are fixing our character for good or for evil.” (Venerable Fulton Sheen).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Trolley
“I carried the Cross of the Son of Man. It was I who carried it.”
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Consolation
Take & drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 17, 2021
- 4 min
Pretending
“God has promised you ‘forgiveness’, but He has not promised you ‘tomorrow’.” (Saint Augustine).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 16, 2021
- 4 min
Again
I am weak, and He is strong, and without Him, I am nothing…
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 15, 2021
- 5 min
Embrace
The Cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.” (Pope Saint Leo the Great).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Democracy
“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Immigrant
“Sometimes it takes an immigrant to really explain patriotism to natives.” (Scott Hahn, in his original conversion testimony delivered 1989)
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
Washing-up
“Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles which you must undergo. Believe in His Love, His exceeding Love.”
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
Eggs
“There is only one thing that grieves me, and that is that I love Him so little.” (Saint Conrad of Parzhan).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 10, 2021
- 4 min
Glasses
“‘…Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold….’” (Matthew 13: 8).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Bitterness
“The earth could exist more easily without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass…” (Saint Padre Pio).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 min
Sneezing
“When you go to confession you unnail Jesus from the Cross.” (Saint John Vianney).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Family
“Every baptized person should consider that it is in the womb of the Church where he is transformed from a child of Adam to a child of...
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
Plants
“Remember, your mission is to scatter those seeds. Your mission is to open the door. It is the Holy Spirit who converts the hearts of men.
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 4, 2021
- 5 min
Nurses
“A single act of love, made during a period of aridity is worth more than a hundred made with affection and consolation.” (Saint Padre Pio).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
Favourites
“Jesus went out to the mountain to pray; and all night He continued in prayer to God.” (Luke 6:12).
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
Mine
“All is mine, all is for me, the earth is mine, the heavens are mine, God is mine, and the Mother of my God is mine.” (St John of the Cross)
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Sarah Raad
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
Guarantees
“And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.” (Luke 1:38).
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