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Advent Reflection + Looking ahead

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Hello Reader,

I hope you are having a peaceful week this Advent season. Enjoying all the Marian feast days that we get to celebrate: the Immaculate Conception (8), Our Lady of Loreto (10), and Our Lady of Guadalupe (12). Know that our prayers are going up for all of you and your families this week!!

LOOKING AHEAD ...

Lent is right around the corner, shortly after the Christmas season. The Lenten Encounter Event will be on Sunday night, February 15th. Mallory Smyth will be the virtual guest speaker!

The encounter events are always a great way to step away from the busyness of life and come together for a night of growing in Faith and building community. We hope you can join us again for the Lenten Encounter Event.

We will continue sharing weekly reflections and resources through Advent. As always, feel free to reach out if you have questions, prayer requests, or ideas.

Wishing you a season filled with hope, peace, joy, and love, and quiet moments with Jesus this Advent.

Let us continue to grow in Faith + Community together.

Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12th), pray for us!!

Blessings,

Natalie & W@W Team

Easter Book Pick

Living Easter: 50 Days to Practice Resurrection

by Laura Kelly Fanucci​

Living Easter will help you fulfill the vision of St. John Paul II, who said, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song!”

As the most significant season of the Church year, Easter deserves to be lived well and celebrated fully, and few voices speak more compellingly about Christian joy than Laura Kelly Fanucci, celebrated author and creator of The Holy Labor newsletter and the Mothering Spirit platform. “Living Easter celebrates joy itself as our Resurrection practice,” Fanucci writes. “Taking up joy as a daily discipline teaches us about feasting as a companion practice to fasting: an intentional sacred act that draws us closer to God."
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Power of a Praying Woman Retreat

There is one more opportunity to join us for retreat in 2026:

March 27-28

St Michael's in Central City, NE

This retreat will focus on the lives of Saints who were women and highlight Marian devotions that will guide us in praying for our families.

We would love to have you join us!!

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Lenten Virtual Guest Speaker

​Mallory Smyth is a Catholic Writer and Speaker. She currently has a podcast titled "The Gospel and ...." ​

She has written for Walking with Purpose and Endow in the past and her book "Rekindled" is our January book pick.

You can find out more about Mallory here
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March is a special time in the liturgical calendar, as it often aligns with Lent. During this time Catholics are encouraged to deepen their prayer life and engage in fasting and almsgiving. Who better to model this to us as Christians than St Joseph.

St Joseph, the earthly father or Jesus and the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is revered as a model of humility, obedience and fidelity to God's will.

This month for the Rhythm of Prayer we will pray this prayer to St Joseph as we prepare to celebrate The Solemnity of St Joseph on March 19th.

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Blessings,

Natalie & Kristin

PO Box 132, Hays, KS 67601
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