Posts by Christy Wilkens
The Message of Lourdes (Free eBook)
I’m releasing a new eBook today called The Message of Lourdes, explaining why the words of the 1858 apparition are for all of us today, too. Sign up for your free copy in honor of the upcoming feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11).
Read MoreIn Which We Learn that My Book Has a Title!
I’m delighted to announce the title of my forthcoming book with Ave Maria Press! Awakening at Lourdes: How an Unanswered Prayer Healed Our Family and Restored Our Faith will be released this fall. It’s the story of our family’s pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Order of Malta in 2017, the miracles we received and the ones we didn’t, and why the wide gulf between those two things is awash in grace upon grace.
Read MoreWhat Br. Juniper and St. Thomas Aquinas teach us about intellectual disability
In the spiritual models of Juniper and Aquinas, we can take comfort that God knows our children perfectly. He has a plan and a path to heaven for each of us.
Read MoreThe Best Books on Disability That I Read in 2020
Making sense of the world means reading about what’s going on in my life, so for many years, that’s means books about disability or by disabled writers. Here are a few that helped shape my thinking in 2020, in no particular order.
Read MoreI’m Launching a Newsletter
Where’ve you been and where’re you headed, Christy? Find out more here, and sign up for my newsletter to get updates on all the exciting stuff to come in 2021.
Read MoreThe Disabled: Modern Missionaries Inside the Church
People with disabilities and their families have an important role to play in the future of the Church. Not as noisome gadflies, but as heralds of a better tomorrow.
Read MoreWhy Jesus Coming in Weakness Matters to Special Needs Families
The Israelites expected the a triumphant king who would cast off their oppression and who could not be defeated. But what they got was a helpless infant, hidden in obscurity, requiring total care.
Read MoreMy Rosary Story: Muscle Memory
During our family rosary, we unite ourselves by offering ourselves, pouring what is in our hearts out into the little community of our family. We gather our minds and bodies back from our fragmented daily existence to the heart of family unity, if only for a few brief minutes.
Read MoreA New Chapter in Catechesis for Persons with Disabilities
The Vatican issues a new document on involving persons with disabilities in catechesis and ministry–not just as recipients, but as active members of the Body of Christ, “in living reciprocal relationships of welcoming and solidarity” with the whole community.
Read MoreThe Seven Sorrows: A Model of Suffering that 2020 Needs
Suffering refines us, as we endure it, and it refines all of humanity, as we leave it at the foot of the cross, our own small pebble added to a cairn the size of the whole world.
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