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Rebecca Sontag
Samantha England: A Portrait of Perseverance Summit Country Day Teacher Educates While Battling Cancer
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By Rebecca Sontag There are a thousand excuses for not making your own artwork. But the kids love to see what you can do. It brings a level of authenticity to your classroom also. The whole thing just worked out amazingly.” –Samantha England Samantha England had more than a thousand …
Box of Joy Cincinnati Seventh-Grader Helps Impoverished People
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By Rebecca Sontag Katie Claes’ dad came home from work one evening excited about something he’d heard on the radio and told Katie all about it. During that morning’s commute on Sacred Heart Radio’s Son Rise Morning Show, Jason Claes listened to an interview with Jim Cavnar, president and cofounder of …
In Profile: Mark Phillips & Terri Hamlin
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Long-time Friends Team Up to Write and Illustrate Children’s Book, The Cliff By Rebecca Sontag The Cliff, written by Mark Phillips and illustrated by Terri Hamlin, is a lovely allegorical tale rife with valuable lessons for the choosing. An old man finds himself a modest home perched high upon a …
St. Rose of Lima Presents “A Very Merry Christmas”
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By Rebecca Sontag “All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul’s refreshment.” –Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas is a time of wonderment and delight when even the dull early winter skies are made new with the glimmer of rich decorations and the twinkling …
BOOKING IT: A LITERARY SPOTLIGHT Fire and Forgiveness: A Nun’s Truce with General Sherman written by Martha Dunsky
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by Rebecca Sontag “You have this gift of faith, and at any age, you can take that gift and make something of it.” — Martha Dunsky But what to do with this gift of faith and how to share it? How do we pass it on? That is something we …
Catholic in Recovery Traveling the Road to Healing and Salvation
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By Rebecca Sontag For Us Men and Our Salvation Rock bottom” sometimes comes halfway up a towering mountain under a wide-open blue sky in Wyoming. That’s where Jill Bischoff was when she pulled her car over to the side of the road that late-Friday afternoon in 1996. She had heard …
Honoring Caregivers: Helping Those in Need Feel Seen and Heard
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Story & photo by Rebecca Sontag The victor will thus be dressed in white, and I will never erase his name from the book of life but will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father and of his angels.” (Revelation 3:5) Caregiving is hard. It is heavy lifting …