by Monica Ashour | Feb 10, 2023 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, Lent
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, TOBET Blog, Saints and Holy People
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 | TOBET, by Monica Ashour, 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...
by Monica Ashour | Oct 19, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, TOBET Blog, Pope John Paul II, Saints and Holy People
October 22, 2022Happy Feast Day, St. John Paul! “Are you Monica Ashour?” a stranger said to me. We were on a train to Rome for St. John Paul’s Canonization on April 28, 2014. Shocked, I said, “Yes. Do I know you?” She said, “I’m Mary Sladek, and this is my husband,...
by Monica Ashour | Sep 8, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, TOBET Blog, Pope John Paul II, Saints and Holy People
Blessed feast of the Nativity of Mary, the Theotokos, whose body carried God made flesh. 43 years ago this week, Pope St. John Paul delivered the very first audience of his Theology of the Body (TOB), his greatest contribution to our Church and our culture. Having...
