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    <title>Ave Explores  - Episodes Tagged with “The Cross”</title>
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  <title>Carrying Your Cross with Emily DeArdo </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Emily DeArdo, author of Living Memento Mori: My Journey through the Stations of the Cross talks with Katie Prejean McGrady about her battle with cystic fibrosis and how it deeply affects her friendships, family life, and faith. Emily shares how carrying this cross helped her gain new insights into how to walk through any desert, especially the forty days of Lent.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>At the foot of the Cross with Leticia Ochoa Adams </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Katie visits with Leticia Ochoa Adams, a wife, mom, and speaker from Texas, who shares about grief, hope, and faith following the suicide of her son and how we can look to Mary as mother and comforter during the darkest days. </itunes:subtitle>
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