Elizabeth Scalia
So, this is what happens when you are fasting but you still have to cook supper. You find a new recipe for chicken that sounds good and you make it. And the suppertime conversation goes like this: Hubby: What is this? Me: It’s a new recipe. It sounded good. Buster: Mom…you’re fasting. Everything sounds good [...]
Reality shows are all over the television now. That’s partly because we are a nation of voyeurs, partly because reality shows are cheap to produce, and partly because we have raised a generation that is very comfortable spilling everything before a flashing red light. As I am on a mini-getaway with my husband, this piece [...]
A reader emailed trying to find this intercessory prayer and I thought I’d repost it, for any interested, since these do seem like days in need of prayer, don’t they? It is a prayer of supplication for the good of others, and for ourselves, that I wrote while describing my prayer before the Blessed Sacrament: [...]
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * From April, 2009: AMUSING HUSBAND My husband came home from work today [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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