Lent Begins!
Please join me at Lent Thing Seven for the holy season of Lent. I created a page above and a link beside. Hoping you come and visit and as always, please share your thoughts. Many blessings as we enter Lent.
Please join me at Lent Thing Seven for the holy season of Lent. I created a page above and a link beside. Hoping you come and visit and as always, please share your thoughts. Many blessings as we enter Lent.
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.
“To you I raise my eyes,to you enthroned in heaven.Yes, like the eyes of a servant on the hand of his master,Like the eyes of a maidon the hand of her mistress,So our eyes are on the Lord our God,till we are shown favor.Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,for we have our fill of…
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…
There is a lady in our parish who helps tend the flowers. She also cleans up the pews and around the church. She also brings gifts for the priest; this woman who has virtually nothing.She is Vietnamese and maybe 70 years old. She wears what the women would have worn during the war. She speaks…
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…
I was immediately transported back to my grandparents kitchen table on their farm. It was breakfast which always included a slice of beautiful New York State cheddar cheese and some orange juice. As I took a piece of cheddar cheese, I said, “this really is one of your best creations, you know…” “Meh,” He smiled….