From Magnificat magazine: It is natural for travelers to hasten toward their native land, and natural too that they should have trouble on the way and safety at home. So let us who are on the way to it hasten toward our native land; for our whole life is like a single day's journey.And therefore let us devote ourselves to divine rather than human … [Read more...]
Giving Credit
...where credit is amply due.I just bought the candles and provided the gentle, verbal promptings all last Sunday. … [Read more...]
“I am the Immaculate Conception”
On this most beautiful of feast days, I wish you all purity of heart peace of soul, and a true devotion! I would also like wish our happy, holy 4-year-old a blessed Spiritual Birthday! (Baptized 4 years ago today!)One quick story as to why this image of Our Lady of Lourdes is special to me. When I was in college and living in France, my … [Read more...]
The Feast of St. Nicholas Revisited
*I am experimenting with the size (and therefore quality) of some of the photos I post. Will you let me know if my most recent post ("Giving Credit") takes super long to download? I am such a newbie when it comes to digital anything! I am doing a test on this post and that's why I'm republishing it. Bear with me. Any advice is welcome. Many Happy … [Read more...]
An Advent Meditation
The Joy of Advent/The Joy of Receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion:Each passing day [of Advent] marks another step towards the celebration of our Redeemer's birth. It is, moreover, a figure of the happiness we feel when we go, rightly disposed, to receive Holy Communion.It is inevitable that along with this joy we should feel progressively more … [Read more...]
Lost!
One large zip-lock baggie containing a whole Advent's worth of Jesse Tree symbols.It is probably right beside our Mommy's sanity, because she can't seem to find that either.Please say a prayer that we find our symbols! Because it was kind of odd to gather round the tree last night and listen to our mom say, "Okay! Well, I can't find the symbols but … [Read more...]
First Sunday of Advent
From today's "Prayer for the Morning" in Magnificat magazine:"We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all."See that no one returns evil for evil; rather always seek what is good [both] for each other and for all. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing" (I Thes. 5:14-17).Could there be a more … [Read more...]
Pardon me, Sir, but have you seen my Advent?
Ad-vent (n.)1. a coming into place, view, or being; arrival: the advent of the holiday season2. (initial capital letter): the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world.3. a Liturgical season chiefly overlooked by most retailers.I have a love/hate relationship with Advent.On the … [Read more...]
It’s Happening!
The stores are filling up with grim-looking people who don't smile.Yesterday the girls & I ran to Sam's Club to get a cake for the feast of Christ the King. As I peered at all the options: cheesecake ("Yuck!" said Maria. Can she be my daughter?); white with buttercream frosting (too birthdayish); Italian cream cake (That's the one!), I noticed a … [Read more...]
Happy Feast of Christ the King!
13 As the visions during the night continued, I saw One like a son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; When he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him,14 He received dominion, glory, and kingship; nations and peoples of every language serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship … [Read more...]
