Where Are They Now?
In 2009: In 2024: Links: The Will To Wife Archdiocese of Cincinnati Center for New Evangelization Mount St. Mary’s Seminary / The Church Wanderer The Human Formation Coalition Dead Theologians…
The Gift of Pain
Years ago, a wise friend shared that she doesn’t pick her Lenten penance anymore, because God knows what she needs during the season of Lent and she trusts Him to…
Week of February 12, 2023
And the numbers keep rising. Lord have mercy. Turkey-Syria quake deaths to top 50,000: UN relief chief Anyone else excited about this RomCom from EWTN? So many similarities to the…
Spaghetti with Sardine Sauce
Quick Lenten dinner you can make with ingredients from your pantry.
Ahjumma Reviews: Doom at Your Service
Synopsis from CJ ENM: Dong-kyung has been working hard ever since her parents passed away. Her life seems to get stable after working as an web novel editor for 6…
Book Review: Homeschool Moms at the Feet of Jesus
This is a book review for Homeschool Moms at the Feet of Jesus by Teresa Gumap-as Dumadag, for which I received a preview copy. Homeschool Moms at the Feet of…
Till We Have Faces 2021
I just finished rereading Till We Have Faces, which I first read in 2015, and which I wrote about here. Six years later, my insights into the book are very…
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
O ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; deign to cast upon…
The Angelus in Poetry, Art, and Prayer
Recently in doing some research for the young adult novel I’m working on, I stumbled across a quote from Van Gogh: “There is peace even in the storm” The Letters…
Gaining A Daily Plenary Indulgence
Several years ago, friends and I were discussing how to get to heaven, and I commented about the difficulty of achieving complete detachment from all sin. My friend Jay Balza…
Person of Color, But Child of the Father First
I’m not white and I’m not black. Perhaps I should just shut up and let people sort things out for themselves? What can a Catholic Asian possibly say that would…
The Real Presence | The Jerusalem Catecheses
#TheRealPresence From the Jerusalem Catecheses The bread of Heaven and the cup of salvation On the night he was betrayed our Lord Jesus Christ took bread, and when he had…
Churches and Cathedrals of Prague and Vienna
Don’t know why this post isn’t working properly (not displaying images) on mobile. No time to fix it, will have to wait. 🙂 Or, a tip: if you’re on mobile,…
The Problem with Humility
It’s the hardest lesson to teach, and it’s the one I just can’t seem to get right… but teach it I must. After five years, I’m rereading Kristin Lavransdatter, and…
Open Letter to Priests from Kevin Wells
//The paradoxical, brutal fruit of real romance – and Vianney knew this interior reality as intimately as anyone – is the daily and simple deaths for one’s lover. All the…
In the Bleak Mid-Winter, Gustav Holst
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter…
The Grace of Not Being Enough
In November the hubby, the big kids, and I had the pleasure of attending Leah Libresco-Sargeant’s talk on her book Building the Benedict Option (Amazon Associates link). (The event was…
What is Sainthood?
I wrote this July 5 in response to a question at CTG, and so I’m posting here in hopes that its helpful for my kids and anyone else passing through:…
Advent Thoughts from Years Past
I was going through my unpublished drafts and came across these two, so I’m publishing now as part of my digital decluttering efforts: Unfinished Draft From 2011: Two weeks ago…
Charity Amid Confusion
Confusion is not of God, we know this. The question is, how do we respond to it? Our best example, as with most things, can be found in Mary. At…
Updated: Hope for the Church
As long as we have men like Alexander Tschugguel in the Church, we have hope. It wasn’t a spur of the moment decision, it took discernment and wisdom. Thank God…
Is It Mama Mary?
But if we’re the least bit uncomfortable about the difference, we’re told it’s only because of our “Western sensibilities”. Okay then. Here’s a compilation of Marian apparitions/images of popular devotion,…
What I Wish I’d Known
SAVING GRACE you don’t do it for yourself you don’t do it for your kids you don’t do it for your husband you don’t do it for company you do…
Revisiting the HP Dilemma: What’s A Parent to do?
I hesitated writing this post for my friend because almost every single discussion I’ve seen or been in online about HP eventually devolved into personal attacks. There are good arguments…
Divine Providence
I know so many people who would have a problem with this. To me it’s the only explanation that makes sense, and I find much peace in it. ***** Divine Wisdom,…
Musings on My Stinky Veil
A few months ago, while in St. Louis to help care for my Papa who was dying, we attended Mass at a church we hadn’t been to before. Like our…
Mothers, Daughters, Rape, and Abortion
You’ve seen all the articles on abortion going around. You’ve seen all the pro-choice and pro-life arguments. I’m addressing this to the mom who has daughters, wondering if she could…
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary by Brant Pitre
Finally, it is worth noting that before the Fall, the woman is never actually called “Eve.” She is simply called “woman.” As Adam declares: “She shall be called Woman (Hebrew…
Remembering Papa
My earliest memory of Papa is of him sitting on the side of his and mommy’s bed, in the early morning hours when it was still dark, praying. He left…
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