Our Lady of Lourdes
Check out this live webcam of Lourdes and save it to your favorites….it is so powerful and can be a great tool for focussed prayer.http://www.lourdes-radio.com/player_live/player_live_en/player-token_en.php#
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.
I admit, I have been caught in a mental frenzy of Christmas and life these past couple of weeks and though I really wanted to start Advent off right, I have already failed. By that, I mean that I haven’t fully focused myself yet on what this season means. But I do seem to find…
I feel like I am in “All Martin, all the time” mode but I stick with one writer and then I move on so bear with me in today’s thought.While I was filling in yesterday at the Diocesean Faith Formation Office, I was wandering around and happened to find James Martin, SJ’s book on 9/11 called…
The images from this past week of the World Youth Day gatherings are stunning. This is my favorite among them. You want kids to show up? Go to the beach. Just like Jesus went to the people, I so love this Pope because that is what he does. Notice the tide behind them, the mountain before them. …
The ongoing sexual abuse crisis in the church has made a mockery of our system. As the Body of Christ, we must respond by 1.) being aware of what is going on and what the church hierarchy is really doing about it.2.) Faithful prayer to change the hearts of those who have continued to allow…
I will be completely honest, I have no concept of time outside of the “to-do” list at this point. The past weekend found us hosting our annual cookie exchange and trying to celebrate Christmas with the kids in my program. My daughter returned from college and my husband completed his first semester as a professor…
These past couple of months have had me in a whirlwind, working non-stop and having to be on top of kid’s activities left and right. I am so glad we are in exam time for the older two and that school is almost over for the younger. But the work keeps pouring in. (For this…