Judith Babarsky wants to live in a world where everyone gets along with everyone else and no one takes themselves too seriously. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice for the past 20+ years, she has seen many different sides of human nature, learning that all people need validation and most people do their best to be good in spite of mishaps along the way. A convert to Catholicism, she earned an MA in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary and now serves as Adjunct Professor of Theology/Bioethics. Judy and her husband have 5 children and two Rat Terriers. When she's not counseling or teaching she enjoys playing with her grand-daughter, traveling, good food and craft beer. She recently began a personal blog at www.judithbabarsky.com that is a work in progress.
I’m always a bit jealous of those who have amazing conversion stories along the lines of Saul’s transformation on the road to Emmaus. Like the modern day conversion of Scott Hahn – his may not have been the conversion of Saul – he didn’t get knocked off a horse and struck blind while hearing voices …
Are you bemoaning the fact that you didn’t really DO anything for Lent? Didn’t add any extra prayer, didn’t fast from anything, didn’t participate in any almsgiving? Don’t despair. It’s never too late. Remember Jesus’ parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20)? Those who came late to labor were rewarded equally to those …
How many times have you heard “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek”? I’ve heard it more times than I can count, I heard it in RCIA, I’ve heard it in Scripture readings at Mass, I’ve read about Melchizedek in in Scripture commentaries and read references to him in books. My take …
A couple Sunday’s age the Church celebrated the Feast of the Holy Family and most of us heard homilies about how we are to emulate in our families the model of the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. So how do you ensure holiness for your family? It’s not easy in the modern world to …
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) was the first person to institute a specific liturgical color scheme. He named four colors: white, red, black and green to be used during the Church year. Today the Church recognizes six liturgical colors – rose and violet/purple were added in 1570 with the promulgation of the Roman Missal following the …
Advent begins this year on Sunday, November 30. How do you plan to spend the time leading up to Christmas? Will you use it to go into frenzied shopping mode? Or will you choose to use it as a time for reflection on the mystery that is the Incarnation and Birth of the Christ Child? …