Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider
Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider: “If you are on Facebook and are not a friend of Fr. Martin’s, I encourage you to become one. Aside from additional insight to this book…”
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
Where I live the weather can’t decide what it wants to do. We have been having a tug o’ war with between Winter and Spring and it is taking it’s toll on our collective psyche. Last night, it snowed again, not enough for accumulation, just enough for Old Man Winter to stick his tongue out…
“And all of this, she held in her heart” There is a time to talk, to chat and to share and there is a time for stillness of mind and heart so that we can hear more clearly the urgings of God. That time is now in the midst of holiday frenzy, I find I…
Lately, the passage of “Two Masters” (Matthew 6:24) has haunted me. One of the reasons I originally left facebook was that it felt like a master because of the time spent giving attention to it. Even if I wasn’t on it, some story or response would say with me for better or worse. I think I have broken that…
Yesterday, in his address to the USCCB, Cardinal Dolan quoted G.K. Chesterton as a call to redirect in a sense where the conference has been focussing. “The premier answer to the question ‘What’s wrong with the world?’ is not politics, the economy, secularism, sectarianism, globalization or global warming … none of these, as significant as…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Jesus Christ for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in…
Tomorrow we begin the holy season of Advent. A time to ready our hearts for the coming of the Lord. The Lord comes to us every day though, one must wonder, are our hearts always ready? Do we always honor what the Lord is trying to say to us? I can assure you that I…