from the pews

This is a guest post by Christian H of The Thinking Grounds, and is appearing...

Kat Fernandez of The Crescat wrote recently about the experience of feeling ignored by the...

I had the privilege of being the lector for the second reading at Mass today,...

I find today's Mass readings particularly wonderful, for reasons that I think are plenty enjoyable...

During the homily this past Sunday on the Transfiguration of Christ, I thought the priest...

Last weekend, while I was in New Haven, I had the pleasure of  getting to...

My first Christmas as a Catholic followed swiftly on the heels of my conversion, and...

In my high school theatre productions, our director encouraged us to start working on assembling...

Yesterday, when I was attending Daily Mass, I was one of only four people present....

As I explained last year, Maundy Thursday is the day I feel least comfortable attending...

I'm always disappointed when a Mass reading has a perplexing or counterintuitive section, and the priest chooses...

Due to a convoluted sequence of events,  I spent about half an hour in an...

First, a quick clarification: in yesterday's post about Divine Mystery, I used the phrases 'Catholic'...

This past Sunday, I attended an Orthodox liturgy for the first time, in the company...

I am totally confused by Divine Mercy Sunday tomorrow.  According to my googling (which began,...

This Easter season, I made it to two days of the Triduum: Maundy Thursday and...

After hearing today's readings at Mass, I wanted to share a favorite non-fiction book with...

  I had a really fun time this week when I attended a lecture/discussion on...

  Over the summer, while I was working in DC, I decided to visit every...

This post is one in a series about Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.  I am...

While looking up the readings for this week's Mass in the Catholic liturgical calendar, I...