Answered Prayers – Our Lady, Undoer of Knots
There are many reasons Catholics don’t pray the Rosary. Some are ignorant of the Rosary because they’ve never been taught. Some have abandoned the practice as “old school”,…
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Category: Saints & Church Year
Walking through the Catholic calendar.
Jesus, How Long Are You Going to Keep Us In Suspense?!?
Imagine you’re sitting on an outer porch of the Jerusalem Temple during the time of Jesus. You’re at one end of a massive stone structure, as large as six…
Don’t Stop Now!
Whew! I made it through Lent. The Fridays without hamburgers and tacos. (In my world, fish tacos don’t count.) The two days of fasting (such a piddly number!)…
Seasons of Change
In the Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis tells us that “(t)he horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable possessions we have produced in the…
Featured Favorite: Making it a Lent of Love
One Ash Wednesday, I made up my mind to lose those stubborn five pounds. I set out to simplify the family meals and eliminate snacks, sugary sodas and…
Lent: A Season of Hope
When I was a child, I spent the whole year anticipating Christmas and all that came with it. By comparison, Easter was a rather dull holiday after the…
Baptism and Belonging in Lent
What is belonging? When we belong, we experience fitting in, just as we are, right now. We experience being a part of something bigger than ourselves. We are…
The Truth About Love
This year, Valentine’s Day, the secular holiday of romantic love, falls on the same day as Ash Wednesday. Valentine’s Day is usually celebrated with gifts of chocolate and…
The Real Gift of Christmas
Christmas gets a lot of attention every year, and much has been said about what it means. But the most important thing to remember about Christmas is that…
The Gifts We Bring
We three kings of orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar… This carol is synonymous with Epiphany, and we sing it every year, at least the first two…