Who am I kidding with that title?It’s the first Monday of Daylight Savings Time. All routines were off this morning! Should you have stopped by at…oh…the ripe old hour of 9:00 a.m., you would not have found my children’s heads bent studiously over their Latin, Phonics, Spelling or Math.You would, however, have found them in the sink.One of them, … [Read more...]
Ambassadors for Christ
Seeing those pink rose-colored vestments at Mass this weekend did my heart and spirits no end of good. I cried, this time for joy.We are halfway there!If this isn’t a rose-colored vestment smile then I don’t know what is.As hard as the past four weeks have been—and I’ll tell you, it seems as if we Minnesotans have not had sun for all that time—they … [Read more...]
Cause and Effect
My oldest son asks to go to morning Mass. Splendid! Off I go with my bookend boys in tow.After Mass (and feeling thankful), I drop him off at school and pop in a CD for the drive home. Andrew Pudewa. Good stuff.Pudewa mentions John Gatto and his book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. I think of one of my favorite … [Read more...]
A Lenten Reflection
In Three Parts~ Part the First ~It shouldn’t surprise me that this Lent has been hard. It shouldn’t surprise me that I falter…grow discouraged…and grapple, sometimes resentfully, with the weight of the cross God sends me.None of this should surprise me and yet…It does.It always does.We are asked to join Our Lord in the desert. “Okay!” I say … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
Food for Thought
“You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people whom God has put into your life.”-- Sister Wendy BeckettHow is your Lent going?Mine has been quite hard.*The image of Mother Teresa is from a paper silhouette by the artist Dan Paulos. … [Read more...]
LOVE this.
HT: RachelUpdated to Add: Here's a cool interview with four of the guys who made this video: Meet the Makers. … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
The Church herself is a field, within which seeds and weeds, the good and the wicked, grow together, a place where there is room to grow, to be converted and above all to imitate God’s patience. The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.-- St. Augustine … [Read more...]
Anthony’s New Favorite Video
Can’t imagine why... … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
The “Aren’t I erudite?” Edition … [Read more...]
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