Wheaton Religious Gift and Church Supply

02/18/2021

The DWA welcomes renewed member Wheaton Religious Gift and Church Supply! A one-stop shopping for all your Christian giftware needs, books, cards and church supplies. Located at 113 W. Front Street, they can be 630-384-1384 or religiousgiftwarehouse.com.

Want to become a DWA member, visit: https://www.downtownwheaton.com/invest/

06/03/2020

"But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them."(John 2:11)

We live out the love of God justly by publicly saying .

10/15/2019

Tuesday is for trusting in Jesus Christ! We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). Today we're celebrating a doctor of the Catholic Church: Saint Teresa of Avila. Patron Saint of headache sufferers and writers, Saint Teresa of Avila is a fantastic intercessor for our times! Come visit us soon to check out our extensive collection of Saint medals - we're praying for you!

06/12/2019

Father's Day is this Sunday, June 16th. There's still time to find the perfect last minute gift!
https://www.religiousgiftwarehouse.com/

05/17/2019

Happy Friday, friends!

05/16/2019

Take advantage of our First Communion sale while it lasts! https://www.religiousgiftwarehouse.com/sacraments/first-communion.html

04/19/2019

She was young, attractive, athletic, dressed in spiffy, hot-pink tennis duds—and crying. As other members of her tennis team gathered around sympathetically, the woman explained that she was “too enmeshed” with her son, a bright boy who had serious problems with social and motor skills.
He was going off independently to school, and she groaned, “My whole life was taking care of him--because if I didn’t do it, he’d have chaos. I don’t know what I’ll do now!”
To read the full Good Friday post by Kathy Coffey, follow this link:

On this Good Friday, let us reflect on Christ's passion.

04/01/2019

Palm Sunday is less than two weeks away, and our staff is hard at work preparing to deliver palms to local churches!

03/21/2019

Transform Yourself This Lent

How does transformation happen? Ladder-climbing Western culture, and the human ego, made the Gospel into a message of spiritual advancement—ascent rather than descent. We hopefully advance in wisdom, age, and grace, but not at all in the way we thought. Jesus got it right! He taught the way of the cross and not the way of climbing. We come to God much more by doing things wrong than by doing things right. God leveled the human playing field by using our sins and failures to bring us to divine union. This is surely the most counterintuitive message of the Gospels—so counterintuitive that it largely remains hidden to this day in plain sight.

—from the book Yes, And...: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr, OFM
https://blog.franciscanmedia.org/minute-meditations/transform-yourself-this-lent-0

03/08/2019

Having given up active Christian belief while a soldier, John was 40 before the depth of his sinfulness began to dawn on him. He decided to give the rest of his life to God’s service, and headed at once for Africa where he hoped to free captive Christians and, possibly, be martyred...

To read the full article on Saint John of God, today's saint of the day, follow this link: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-john-of-god/

03/05/2019

Fat Tuesday, for many Catholics, is an exercise in excess. It's a day where many eat probably more than they should before a season of sacrifice begins. But what are the Catholic roots behind it?

To read the full article by Jim Van Vurst, OFM, follow this link:

Mardi Gras, literally Fat Tuesday, has grown in popularity in recent years as a raucous, sometimes hedonistic event. What are its Catholic roots?