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.
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Remembering Grandma Part 2
There are so many funny stories in our family and many take place on my grandparents farm in West Martinsburg but this one I am going to share because it is a favorite of mine and it reminds me of the story of the workers in the vineyard (Matt 20:1-16) and it makes me laugh.As the youngest…
Holy Thursday
“When it was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. And while they were eating, he said, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him, one after another, “Surely it is not I, Lord?” He said in reply, “He who has…
While We Wait
“During the day, Jesus was teaching in the temple area, but at night he would leave and stay at the place called the Mount of Olives. And all the people would get up early each morning to listen to him in the temple area.” Luke 21 37-38I chose this quote because it is the last…
Warning! You May Not Like This…
Here is an article from the America blog about a new book “Flying In the Face of Tradition” by Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC, that discusses what we have discussed here many times; the need for a sort of death in order to bring new life to our imploding institutional church. If you are one to not keep up…
Fast, Pray and Repent
The immediacy of this plea I share in the link below should not be lost on us. We are getting a clarion call to repent, fast and pray. Humanity may depend on it. No one is being overly dramatic, he is able to hear the heartbeat of humanity. We are bleeding, we are weak. We are…
Creating Space
Last week I started the 19th Annotation Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Our assignment, before we actually begin the retreat, was to create a space where we can quiet ourselves so that we can be focused in prayer and reflection. This exercise made me think about the idea of “creating space” not just…