If you have a minute, vote for our sensible, kind and shameless friend to say the Benediction at the Inauguration. We could really use a unified blessing!https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ask-father-james-martin-sj-new-york-lead-inauguration-benediction/BGBNz8l4
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.
“He took away our infirmities and bore our diseases” Matthew 8:17This is actually a quote from Isaiah 53:4, that is put into the passage to illustrate that Jesus is the promised one. Today this quote is fitting as much of the talk has been about health. Poor Bill is sick, Cheryl is sick and the…
Yesterday…or maybe Thursday the social media outlets that I subscribe to blew up with the unveiling of an interview from Pope Francis. A well-coordinated interview with several Jesuit Media sources that had been kept secret for a while. I have only been able to read the highlights of this interview thanks to James Martin SJ…
Here is an article from Fr. James Martin which I thought was a nice little follow up to yesterdays article about talking to your kids about the saints! Great food for thought! Nice way to start the day! (Except the image of St Lucy!) 🙂http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-james-martin-sj/the-saints-were-as-strang_b_776358.html
Here is an interview I had last night with Pope Francis….in my imagination of course. But I feel like we won the Papal lottery and as we say in New York, hey, you never know!Me: Good Morning Dearest Pope Francis for dearest you shall ever be….Pope Francis: Have you been reading Jane Austin, Annette?Me: I…
So today was much more cheery than yesterday. I was carrying a lot of worry and anxiety….and it came to a head last night seeing pictures of people’s lives in devastation. I went to bed, as I always do when the world is too much. Of course it was 10pm. I woke to sunshine and birdsong…