The celebration of Easter begins, for our home, with the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday night. In the early years of the Church, Christians would read the story of our salvation, sing psalms, and pray from sunset until sunrise. In our modern day, we just gather for about three hours! Scripture passages include the story…
I read the following reflection at my Lay Dominican meeting this weekend. (St. Mary Magdalene Chapter, St. Albert the Great Province) We take turns sharing reflections, usually using the Sunday Gospel reading. ********************* This weekend, the Church will once again hear the remarkable Gospel passage of Lazarus being raised from the dead. This miracle is…
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the beautiful liturgical season of Lent. Like many Catholics, my forehead is covered with ashes and my stomach is pretty much empty. I struggle with fasting every year. It’s not that I eat big meals (except when Bruce cooks!) but I do snack a lot during the…
I have been looking at some daily prompts shared by writer Jeff Goins in a Facebook group, My 500 Words. I started late, due to my post-holiday funk and fatigue. But I have been happy to write more regularly, even if I’m not publishing all of it online. One of his prompts caused me to…
So, it’s been a couple of months since I have written here. I’d like to say this was a planned sabbatical of sorts, but it wasn’t. My mind was just cluttered with some holiday projects for home and church, plus a general sleepiness I get in the dreariness of winter. Am I awake now? Only…
I really had not planned on doing the #30DaysofGratitude theme this year, because I knew I wouldn’t keep up with it. Here it is, November 5th, and I am just getting around to writing my first post in 2 weeks. Where have I been? Watching and being completely distracted by the most amazing post season…
I have been working on a few non-writing projects, but decided to dust things off here. The perfect way to do that is to participate in #WorthRevisit posts, linked up at Reconciled to You. This post was originally published exactly three years ago. I had started blogging about our Italian vacation, using my husband’s tablet…
It’s time for another Wednesday #WorthRevisit. Plus I am continuing my focus on Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. Tomorrow is Gabriel’s birthday. He would be 22 years old if he was still living on this earth. Hard to believe it sometimes. I will be speaking next week at the local Pregnancy and Infant Loss…
I realize it’s Tuesday, but this #MondayMercy post was stuck, unfinished, in my head for the last 24 hours. Time to sort out the many thoughts I have for this work of mercy: Visit the Sick. I knew I wanted to relate it to this month of Pregnancy & Infant Loss, so I decided to…
So, tonight I have a silly post. Gotta do that every now and then, right? This is one of my favorite pictures of my husband and me together. It was taken in September of 2015, when we attended a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium. I had purchased tickets…