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    WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE

    "The Cross of Same-Sex Attraction is by far the heaviest Cross I carry.
    It is also, by far, the most beautiful one."
    - Avera Maria Santo

    Dear Audrey, God Is So Good To Me

    June 17, 2019

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    Avera Maria Santo

    Dear Audrey,

    Greetings in our Good Lord, my friend!

    My name is Avera Maria Santo. We've never met before, but we are Sisters in Christ. I'm feeling lead by His Holy Spirit to write you this letter.

    I write to you as a sister in faith, I write to you as a beloved Daughter...

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    How It Feels To Hear A Priest Call Me Gay...

    April 26, 2019

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    Avera Maria Santo

    It feels like a stab in the back.

    Like he doesn't see me, but a lesser aspect of me. Like he won't look at me, only what he wills to see of me.

    It feels like he's dismissing me.

    Like I am not his spiritual daughter, but a figment of his ideology. Like I'm nothing more tha...

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    3 Tips For Praying Like Only You Can

    April 25, 2019

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    Avera Maria Santo

    “I don’t think you actually understand what prayer really is…”

    My spiritual director pointed this out to me when we met just a few weeks ago. He’d asked me previously what my most vivid memory of experiencing the presence of God in prayer was, and I couldn’t think of an...

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    The Wood of the Cross, the Wood of the Bed

    January 25, 2019

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    Avera Maria Santo

    I use to really hate sleeping alone.

    There’s just something about it that makes me so uncomfortable sometimes.

    I think it’s probably a bit more accurate to say that I hated the idea of sleeping alone forever. The idea that I could remain single for the rest of my life be...

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    The Vocation of Friendship, Thoughts on the Film Boy Erased

    December 18, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    About a month ago, I saw the movie Boy Erased after I was asked to write a review of it. If you're unfamiliar with the film, it's based off of true events and tells the story of a teenage boy, Jared, who comes out to his parents as gay and is enrolled in a conversion t...

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    An Open Letter to Bishops on the Topic of Homosexuality at the Youth Synod

    October 3, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    Dear Bishops of the Holy Catholic Church,

    When I was made aware of the efforts being made by pro-LGBT groups trying to persuade Catholic Bishops to change Church teaching on homosexuality, specifically at this year's Youth Synod, it devastated me.

    As someone who has not...

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    What My TED Talk Would Be On

    July 31, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    I've been watching a bunch of TED Talks on YouTube as of late, trying to learn from people as I begin speaking more and more, and I thought that it would be so cool to give a TED Talk myself one day!

    Just in case you don't know, TED is an organization that shares ideas,...

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    Finding My Calcutta in the LGBTQ Community

    June 19, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    Recently I've been watching the film The Letters, which documents the later life of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Her willingness to serve the poorest of the poor in India, responding to the call God placed in her heart, blew me away. I knew I wanted to be like her, but I ju...

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    Can I Be Happy and Single?

    June 8, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    A couple of months ago, I was talking with a good friend from college who identifies as homosexual. I'm not sure what sparked the conversation, but she expressed her concern that she felt I honestly believed God would hate me if I dated a woman.

    She was genuinely concer...

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    The Call for the Saints Among Us

    June 5, 2018

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    Avera Maria Santo

    As Catholics, many of us are aware that June is the month that we celebrate and revere the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The tender Heart of God made man, which shed blood and water on the Cross out of love for us. This Heart, placed in the world to be exposed to both ha...

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