Sr. Helena Burns, FSP
Sr. Helena, fsp, is a Daughter of St. Paul. She holds a Masters in Media Literacy Education and studied screenwriting at UCLA. www.HellBurns.com Twitter: @srhelenaburns
Sr. Helena Burns: So, what was your Epiphany?
The Christmas season has so many wonderful feast days along the way, not least of which is Epiphany, the commemoration of the Magi’s visit to the Christ Child.
Spruce up your Christmas movie watching
Since screening Christmas movies together with family and friends has become as ubiquitous as Ugly Christmas Sweater Parties, maybe it’s time to be more than just holly jolly couch potatoes. Perhaps we can find ways to integrate Christmas activities (emphasis on “active”) with the spectating.
Sr. Helena Burns: Some prayer tips for Advent
Advent, like Lent, is a prayerful time of joyful expectation of a major feast of the Christian year.
Sr. Helena Burns: It’s your duty to parent media for kids
With all that today’s parents have to do, how is it possible to go about the mammoth task of parenting the media?
Sr. Helena Burns: Spiritual warfare is for everyone
Some people like to think of life as a journey, an adventure, a pilgrimage, a blank slate, a beach, a work of art … a box of chocolates. But life isn’t always that neutral, is it? Sometimes we are dealt a rough hand from the earliest moments of our existence. Sometimes life is filled with pain and obstacles. We are free to look at life however we want, but one thing is for sure: Life is a battle, and no one gets to sit on the sidelines.
Sr. Helena Burns: Whatever happened to devotions?
Are you “hopelessly devoted”? No, not to your crush, your boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse, but to the Most High God?
Sr. Helena Burns: Handy hints to overcome rosary stuggles
Are you struggling with the rosary? Struggling with praying the rosary? You are not alone. Many Catholics feel super guilty for not praying the rosary very much or at all.
Sr. Helena Burns: Feelings are just one part of being human
“Feelings. Nothing more than feelings.” Thus went the 1970s ballad. As often happens, pop songs contain profound lessons if you take them out of context and give them meanings the songwriter never intended: “Yes, they’re just feelings, and nothing more. Don’t sweat it.”
Sr. Helena Burns: Digging deep into ‘The Warning’ signs
Have you heard of “The Warning” (aka “The Illumination of Consciences”)?
Sr. Helena Burns: Beware the trail that is built on lies
When the Russian dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet empire in 1974, he wrote a famous exhortation to his countrymen entitled “Live Not By Lies.” Solzhenitsyn spent years doing hard labour in prison camps, survived and dared to write about his experience in The Gulag Archipelago. Not only did he write his own story, but he gathered and recounted the tragic stories of those who didn’t make it out alive.