by Monica Ashour | Apr 6, 2023 | by Monica Ashour, Easter, TOBET Blog
G.K. Chesterton once quipped, “The greatest thing the human body can do is to rise from the dead” (quoted by Dale Ahlquist from the TOB Congress audio). That’s what we celebrate today—Easter Sunday. Jesus Christ was the first human to rise from the dead bodily. Quite...
by Monica Ashour | Mar 20, 2023 | by Monica Ashour, Lent, TOBET Blog, Virtues
Do you remember your childhood days when your mom would guide you in moderating your helpings for a meal or dessert? “Only two pieces of candy.” “Only one helping of spaghetti.” “Only two helpings of ice cream.” (How good that two helpings of ice cream were allowed!)...
by Monica Ashour | Feb 10, 2023 | by Monica Ashour, Lent, TOBET Blog
Last week while giving a retreat to middle school students, I had them bring a notepad and pencil into the chapel. After some quiet and prayer, I asked them to notice everything in the chapel and to draw it, be it candles, stained glass, air conditioning vent, pews,...
by Monica Ashour | Dec 31, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Saints and Holy People, TOBET Blog
A special blog by Monica Ashour, honoring Pope Benedict XVI’s death and thus his entrance into eternal life. When my friend and colleague, Sheryl Collmer, texted me this morning, “Rest in eternal joy, dear Benedict,” I smiled and said, “Well done, good and faithful...
by Monica Ashour | Dec 5, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, TOBET, TOBET Blog
December 8, 2001 is the day TOBET was officially founded by nine of us eager, young adult Catholics who had been changed by Jesus Christ through St. John Paul’s vision of the human person known as Man and Woman: He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. We had no idea...
