Some Prayer Intentions for the Triduum
Specific prayer intentions, if you could join me in prayer the rest of this Holy Week for the following: April is Autism Awareness Month, so I’m praying and remembering my friends KCand Mary Ellen and their families. Also praying for those living with...
No Need for Divorce in the Philippines
In just the past week, Philippine news outlets, plus several international ones, published almost 50 articles on divorce, and how oppressive it is to keep Filipinos from having access to this 'unmet need'. There are too many intertwined issues which cannot all be...
Chicken with Almond Sauce on St. Frances of Rome’s Feast Day, March 9
Today we're celebrating St. Frances of Rome (click here for her fascinating story), so for dinner I've made a chicken dish which dates back to the Middle Ages. Since St. Frances was a good home manager I could imagine her directing the servants to pound the nuts and...
Where I Get My Pro-Life News and Commentary
A friend, Francis B., requested a list of my sources for pro-life news. So, in no particular order, my favorites: General Crisis Magazine First Things Catholic World Report MercatorNet NewAdvent.org National Catholic Register Abortion Live Action News Americans United...
The Plan for Lent 2015
- Commitment to daily Mass whenever we have a car at our disposal. (This sentence was very hard to type with it being 1 degree F outside. UGH. Please pray for me.) - Confession every two weeks. - Adoration on Wednesday evenings. - Mom's Reading Material: Sheen,...
Further Up and Further In: The Adventure of Raising Catholic Teens
I started this post days ago. A discussion at the 4Real forums called my attention to this article, and I quickly typed up some notes -- things I wanted to cover in response. That very night, with this post still in my drafts folder, I got a long email from our...
It’s Not About Rabbits, But Maybe It’s Not About You Either
It's been a little over 24 hours since I woke up to Facebook hopping (pun unintended) because of a remark the Pope made on the plane to Rome from Manila, where he spent four days with the Filipino people, celebrating, teaching, loving. Many are upset because once...
The Real Presence
It’s St. John Paul II’s Feast Day!!
Our paper dolls came just in time! So we'll be playing with those in the morning, hopefully while I read aloud Karol from Poland. "Hopefully" because we can't find it right now, though Nino says it's upstairs on his bookshelf. We'll start out in the morning with...
Nino’s First Grade (After-the-Fact) Curriculum, 2014-2015
(the STARS ***** = Nino's rating) August 2014 Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough ***** I loved it because it was funny and he didn't fix anything. Mr. Popper's Penguins * audio book read by Nick Sullivan I didn't like it because they were penguins and I didn't like Mr....
Montmorency (Sour) Cherry Lambic Sorbet / Sorbetto alla Ciliegia
I'm in a cherry mood. 🙂 And I've been wanting to make cherry sorbet for a while now, except the recipes I've been running into seem to produce a light rose-colored sorbet, and I wanted to replicate the deep-red cherry sorbet that I tasted in Italy years ago. I didn't...
Inner Beauty Conference in Manila
This is a promo post for a conference happening this Saturday in Manila. The Inner Beauty Conference Inner Beauty Women’s Conference 2014: FEMININE GENIUS was inspired by Pope St. JPII's Mulieris Dignitatem, of which I'm a big fan. From their promo copy: The first...
French Onion Soup / Soupe a l’Oignon GratinĂ©e
Onion soup is a lovely thing to make right after the onion harvest at end of season, when the weather's just starting to cool down. Onion soup is also a lovely thing to start love stories with. Like ours, which certainly didn't begin with onion soup, but has seen its...
Ten Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage
My hubby and I will be married 25 years in December. While we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about divorce-proofing a marriage, we do have some experience with growing a marriage to its 25th year. Hope this helps. 1. Start by eliminating DIVORCE from...
God Picks My Lenten Penance
Image: Josh Applegate I suppose jumping right into the writing part will have to be good enough for now. I'm reading another book and having another blog conversation this year. I asked my friend to pick this year and he picked St. Faustina's Divine Mercy in My Soul,...