Faith Hakesley
You Are Loved
+JMJ+ God loves you. Ok, I know some of you may be thinking, "I know that already," but I urge you to stop and really consider what those...
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Faith Hakesley
- Nov 11, 2019
- 5 min
The Transformative Power of Suffering
A review of The Seed Who Was Afraid to Be Planted by Anthony DeStefano +JMJ+ Let's face it, there's a lot of suffering in our world and,...
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Faith Hakesley
- Nov 5, 2019
- 8 min
The Pain of Grief: Trusting in God When We Don't Understand
+JMJ+ Last weekend, time seemed to stop when I received the unexpected news that my 23-year-old cousin had passed away in his sleep after...
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Faith Hakesley
- Nov 2, 2019
- 7 min
On the 18th Annviersary of my Brother's Death: Remembering Matt
Originally posted to Faith Restored on July 2, 2019 Last week I experienced one of the most terrifying experiences of my life when I...
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Faith Hakesley
- Oct 22, 2019
- 8 min
A Victim's Response to Bishop Robert Barron's 'Letter to a Suffering Church'
+JMJ+ Several weeks ago, copies of Bishop Robert Barron's “Letter to a Suffering Church” were made available at our parish. To be...
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Faith Hakesley
- Oct 14, 2019
- 7 min
The Freedom of Forgiveness
+JMJ+ There's been a lot of talk of forgiveness in the news lately. A video showing a young man named Brandt Jean forgiving and embracing...
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Faith Hakesley
- Oct 1, 2019
- 6 min
A Sign for a Sign
+JMJ+ I became pregnant with my husband's and my first child in 2010. Call it "mothers intuition" but I knew right away that we were...
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Faith Hakesley
- Sep 25, 2019
- 10 min
An Open Letter to Pope Francis
+JMJ+ If you've been following the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, you may recall that the Vatican held a sexual abuse...
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Faith Hakesley
- Sep 24, 2019
- 8 min
Learning to Live Again
+JMJ+ It hardly seems possible that three months have gone by since my heart nearly gave out when I suffered an episode of ventricular...
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Faith Hakesley
- Sep 16, 2019
- 7 min
Remembering the Victims of Clerical Sexual Abuse
+JMJ+ Are you tired of hearing about the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis yet? Speaking as a survivor of sexual abuse by a priest, I'm...
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Faith Hakesley
- Sep 11, 2019
- 7 min
A Word on Priests, Our Spiritual Warriors
+JMJ+ “Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.” (Ven....
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Faith Hakesley
- Aug 31, 2019
- 3 min
Announcing the Title of my Book
Can you believe it's already September? This year has flown by so fast! Almost a year has gone by since my story was brought to the...
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Faith Hakesley
- Aug 30, 2019
- 5 min
A Simple Pilgrimage – A family visit to the final resting place of a relatively unknown priest
Originally posted to Faith Restored on August 23, 2019 Usually, I’m a bit of a homebody. I don’t typically go too far from home and I...
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Faith Hakesley
- Aug 30, 2019
- 7 min
A Leap of Faith
Originally published to Faith Restored on August 7, 2019 The beauty and majesty of the New Hampshire mountains never ceases to amaze me!...
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