Today is Palm Sunday. The church has been decorated in purple during the five previous weeks of Lent. Purple for the desert. Purple for the waiting. Purple in anticipation of what is to come. Today, if nothing else, people who walked into the church would have noticed the red. People would also notice the fresh… Continue reading Palm Sunday
Confirmation – an affirmation of a belief, a piece of evidence. These are standard definitions. I am, though, referring to one of the Rites of Initiation in the Catholic Church. On March 18th, the Bishop came to town to confirm my son’s class. There were 22 young people who were ready to take a more… Continue reading Confirmation
I have been following, and jumping in with both feet, as Ronna Detrick stays in the desert this Lenten season. You can imagine my surprise when the homily at Mass yesterday dealt with the temptations that were put to Christ while he was in the desert. I don’t want temptations. I want to be in… Continue reading Temptations in the Desert and Our Lives
I know. That was yesterday. How can I be writing on Thursday about yesterday? Do you read a newspaper – online or in print? Aren’t you reading about yesterday? Anyway, I wanted to talk about the irony pointed out during my priest’s homily yesterday. I have long been a student of literary elements. I like… Continue reading Ash Wednesday
Between Kelly Diels‘s Operation Secret Valentine, Momalom‘s Love It Up Challenge, a post on How to Write a Love List at Em and Lo‘s and Big Little Wolf‘s suggestions for celebrating V Day on a budget, I am again thinking about love and today about my life. So, here is my love list to my… Continue reading A Love List to My Life
The letter below is inspired by the women at Momalom.com. They come up with some of the best ideas for blog posts. This blog challenge is to write a love letter to a person, to a thing, to the world and share it on your own blog or on their blog if you need to. You… Continue reading Dear Father
Yesterday, while I was off guest blogging at Drama For Mama and Motherese, a birthday party happened. The watershed SCOTUS ruling on Roe v. Wade turned 37 yesterday. Do you remember, if you are older than 37, what you were doing at that age? Had you become complacent in your life, with your thinking? Did you take… Continue reading Roe versus Wade at 37
Man? Woman? Being? I was wondering around the blogosphere when I came across Ronna Detrick’s entry entitled “Do You Remember When God Was A Woman?” I thought long and hard as I was reading both the entry and its accompanying comments. You see, I am a catechist. I have completed the Basic Catechetical Certification courses… Continue reading God Is A …
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. It is a celebration of the presentation of the baby Jesus to the Magi. When I was listening to Deacon George discuss the Magi, I got to thinking. Sometimes when I think, it is dangerous. Deacon George, to paraphrase his homily this morning, discussed where the three Magi… Continue reading The Feast of the Epiphany
It was years ago – many but not so many she does not recall the feelings of shame and embarrassment. This time of year she usually can push these memories out of her mind but for some reason, this year she cannot. She had still not found a full time job other than working at… Continue reading Christmas Years Ago
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