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.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not a real fan of the way Rome does things. I have appropriate respect for Pope Benedict and always have. I have tried to like him and there have been moments when I have found I do (Big of me, eh?) but mostly I am just frustrated. Frustrated by…
“Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he said in reply, “the coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.” Luke 17:20-21Being Palm Sunday, the obvious thing to…
In Saturdays’s Gospel, I was focused on the passage from Matthew about putting new wine into old wineskins. As several readers on here know, this Gospel was the inspiration for a National Catechetical Award called The New Wineskins Award, which it just so happens my friend won. We have harassed her ever since. So, usually…
I am feeling a little dumb today. My 12 year old is taking her Latin final tomorrow (pray for her!) and has really struggled this final quarter after an otherwise very good year. She is a bit of a shambles. My 14 year old took her Spanish regents (a test in NY State that you…
As I sit here, there are fifteen people dead from another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school. This on the heels of the mass shooting in Buffalo at a Tops Supermarket. In the backdrop is a Bishop grifting to raise money while denying Nancy Pelosi the Eucharist because she is fighting for the…
