Every Triduum, starting with Maundy Thursday through Easter Sunday, I re-read T.S. Eliot’s “The Four Quartets”. It is four of his best poems, and for
It’s the end of NFP Awareness Week, so I’m going to throw in a few cents as a mama with three kids under three. Natural
The Thrill of the Chaste:Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On by Dawn Eden Ave Maria Press, $15.95 One gets the idea that a fruit
Until the end of July, everyone can watch A.D. The Bible Continues – and what better way to engage the Bible but through a visual
The readings for February 6, 2015: First reading: HEB 13:1-8 Responsorial Psalm: PS 27:1, 3, 5, 8B-9ABC Alleluia: LK 8:15 Gospel: MK 6:14-29 There is a lot of hostility
Last night, my husband Will and I put our little daughter Grace to bed and had our first moments of alone time… barely, before Will had
My baby woke me up at 11, 2, 4 and 6:30 am. The bug bites keep me uncomfortable. I miss my husband – we’ve been
Under the Influence of Jesus: The Transforming Experience of Encountering Christ by Joe Paprocki (Loyola Press, 168 pages, $15.95) Disclaimer: This book was sent to
Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter mass readings The responsorial response sets the tone for today’s readings: “God is king of all the earth.”
Life, in all its glory, is pretty messy. Sin skips and trips us through life as we try to be faithful and nothing halts us
First, there is the question of meeting someone. And if you meet a person you like so much, and maybe they like you too, the
“Today I told off a cashier who was trashing the president” read the Daily Kos headline. Color me intrigued; I clicked on it. I read it.
Anything worth knowing begins with a question. Philosopher Etienne Gibson wrote, “Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires
An important thing to remember about angels is that they are terrifying. I am not sure when angels started to be domesticated, but nearly every
In the 2011 film Friends With Kids, two platonic friends decide to have a child together without the entanglements of marriage (which they saw as
There is a great fear among women that we are being under-appreciated. It’s not that we women want all the power; we just want credit
Flying home, the college lady next to me mentioned she was in a “complicated” relationship with someone back home. I smiled and said I’d been
The morning after my future sister’s wedding, my fiance and I attended the family brunch and were asked the question: short or long engagement? B.
In what can only be described as “true love,” I agreed to marry my fiance without ever dancing with him. Perhaps this seems impossible, improbable,
The hubris of the Catholic Church is often a huge turn-off to many people. How can she, the Church, this whore (my mother), claim to
Today is Good Friday. At noon, my family will drive to Mt. Adams, to a hill overlooking the Ohio River. We will descend many steps,
