Register Columnists Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:04:09 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Walking on Rosary Path is prayer in motion /opinion/columnists/item/29834-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-walking-on-rosary-path-is-prayer-in-motion /opinion/columnists/item/29834-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-walking-on-rosary-path-is-prayer-in-motion

HereƵapp a novel way to pray the rosary: In the middle of a field, with rosary beads so large an adult can kneel inside them, in the company of a gaggle of geese — mom and dad with five goslings in tow.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:56:09 -0400
Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Fine food feasts fit for feast days /opinion/columnists/item/29624-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-fine-food-feasts-fit-for-feast-days /opinion/columnists/item/29624-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-fine-food-feasts-fit-for-feast-days

Faith and food are two of the best parts of my life. So when I stumbled across a cookbook that brought these life-giving elements together, I was hooked.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Thu, 30 May 2019 15:16:51 -0400
Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Time to put our digital lives in order /opinion/columnists/item/29409-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-time-to-put-our-digital-lives-in-order /opinion/columnists/item/29409-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-time-to-put-our-digital-lives-in-order

ThereƵapp a line in Pope Francis’ recent Apostolic Exhortation to young people Christus Vivit that jumps out at me. When he writes that “digital media can expose people to the risk of addiction, isolation and gradual loss of contact with concrete reality,” he is speaking to my own millennial heart.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:14:49 -0400
Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: My Lenten promise extends to 54 Fridays /opinion/columnists/item/29251-my-lenten-promise-extends-to-54-fridays /opinion/columnists/item/29251-my-lenten-promise-extends-to-54-fridays

When I first started thinking about what I would do for Lent this year, the last thing I imagined was a fast that would encompass 54 Fridays, running until Easter of next year.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:58:32 -0400
Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: My piano keeps my life in tune /opinion/columnists/item/27174-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-my-piano-keeps-my-life-in-tune /opinion/columnists/item/27174-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-my-piano-keeps-my-life-in-tune

There is a special type of panic that is reserved for watching your piano being maneuvered up three flights of stairs. 

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:44:08 -0400
Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Silence is indeed golden /opinion/columnists/item/26886-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-silence-is-indeed-golden /opinion/columnists/item/26886-vanessa-santilli-raimondo-silence-is-indeed-golden

In todayƵapp world, people are mostly foreign to stillness.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:21:07 -0500