Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider
Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider: “If you are on Facebook and are not a friend of Fr. Martin’s, I encourage you to become one. Aside from additional insight to this book…”
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.
Happy Feast Day St. Francis of Assisi…one of my favorite saints. I remember watching Brother Sun and Sister Moon a movie about the life of Saint Francis and St. Clare and I thought he was the kindest, meekest and gentlest saint there could be. And he was portrayed by an adorable actor so there was…
Yesterday was Easter which in this house is everything. My world exists because of the promise of Easter.As a girl growing up in a predominantly Catholic community, I remember how involved I was with all of our traditions and rituals at my church and how they helped form my identity. While the Easter bunny is a fun…
It has been coming on for some time now, a need to break away from my norm and hunker down into a more cloistered world. More of a dream than a probability as I am still raising children and still working in a social environment. But more and more I feel that I have not…
I feel the need to share this blogpost from Patheos Catholic. I hits so close to home with my own feelings for the institutional church. This is the continuous struggle of women in the church but as the author says “I love the church,” Like her, it has given me so much, most importantly, my…
My daughter Meg put this together for me for a talk I did on Mary. I wanted to open up with focussing on Mary’s spirit but also her ordinariness. At twelve, she was able to capture it. During the words “Holy, Holy. Holy” watch for the focus on the ordinary family movements. The typical giving…