A Mother’s Prayer
Image: Annie Spratt Years and years ago when my kids were still little, I came across this prayer in a newspaper (might have been Our Sunday Visitor), that a mom said she prayed every night after tucking her kids into bed. It was something like "Lord, fill the gaps"...
The Fifth Joyful Mystery: A Tale of Two Vocations
Image: Caleb Jones | Unsplash For the past several months I've been meditating a lot on the Fifth Joyful Mystery, more than I used to. For one thing, I had been wondering why this mystery is called JOYFUL. Whenever I read or hear the Gospel story, the foremost emotion...
The Gift of Cancellation
Image: Maddi Bazzocco Cancel Culture isn't new, though the phrase is (relatively). People have always cut off ties when relationships no longer work for them. Anyone who has lost friends/a significant other knows this. Social media just made it worse --...
The Gift of Pain
Image: Anne Nygård 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 send that penance her way at the right time. (I've probably written the same thing...
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 book I'm writing (my male protagonist is atheist/agnostic Jamie who falls in love with a...
Spaghetti with Sardine Sauce
Quick Lenten dinner you can make with ingredients from your pantry.
Ahjumma Reviews: Doom at Your Service
Source: http://program.tving.com/tvn/myulmang/4/Board/View?b_seq=14 https://youtu.be/C4wFwQYEses 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 years,...
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 Jesus is a short but pithy book that will help you to bring order to your heart, so you can bring order to...
Quotes from Venerable Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ
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 different. Orual and Psyche could still be seen as two different people. They are both on a faith journey, but...
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 me a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a...
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 of Vincent Van Gogh The quote didn't exactly square with the image I had of Van Gogh, from what little I...
Gaining A Daily Plenary Indulgence
Source: Baltimore Catechism 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 had a lot to say about that. His comment was so helpful that I...
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 make a difference? I can only give it my best shot. I'll answer a question I've seen many ask of those who...
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 given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said: “Take, eat: this is my body.” He...