From yesterday’s “Saint Quote of the Day” calendar: Courage! In the spiritual life, whoever doesn’t go forward goes backwards. ~Saint Pio of Pietrelcina And today: So you have failed? You have not failed; you have gained experience. Forward! ~Saint Josemaria Escriva So very appropriate for this Lenten season! Read more
As I was driving in the car one night, listening to the radio, I heard Chuck Swindoll giving a talk on marriage. He made a great analogy that I thought I would share with you today: “Marriage is Like Planning a Trip to Hawaii.” Imagine that you are planning a trip to Hawaii. You have all of your suitcases packed full of funny-looking Hawaiian shirts, flip-flops, sunscreen, and big hats. You step onto the plane and you are in a... Read more
Good Afternoon! I just wanted to give you all a quick update and let you know that we will not be moving over to Patheos today. There are some tech and design issues with the new site and we are currently working with Patheos to fix these things. I am hoping everything will be ready to go in the next week. And we will let you all know as soon as the new site is up and ready to go.... Read more
I wanted to share with our readers a little bit more about our thinking as we transition our blog to the Patheos Faith and Family portal over the next few weeks. First of all, many may not know what Patheos.com is. The idea of the site is to present the “marketplace of ideas” with writers and experts from various religious denominations and philosophical backgrounds. In that way, for me, it is reminiscent of our time at Princeton, where the “Office... Read more
The three younger ones and I just returned from our Ash Wednesday service… Can I say how nice it is to take in church with the little ones in tow? For holy days and others like this, we head to a less formal church down the street that we can make in a timely manner after preschool pick-up. We sit in back in the corner, we sing and wiggle and take in the liturgy, but without the stresses and rigor... Read more
Lent is about new beginnings, right? Well with the start of this Lenten season, Building Cathedrals will be moving!!! After much thought and prayer among the Builders, we have decided to move our blog to the Patheos site. At Patheos, we will be part of their new Faith and Family portal. Our current buildingcathedrals.com site will simply redirect to the Patheos site, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find us over there. However, if you get our feed in... Read more
Good morning, dear friends! As Lent approaches, I feel compelled to share the same story that I shared last year about this time. It is actually not my story, but a story told by a priest who helps out at our parish – once in a while, he says the Mass that we typically attend on Sunday mornings, and he just happened to be saying this Mass again yesterday, just as he was last year on the Sunday before Ash... Read more
I thought that I would post this great recipe for healthy waffles, just in time for your Saturday morning breakfast! We actually tried this recipe on a weeknight and called it a “silly dinner,” which basically means that we have breakfast for dinner on the nights when I have run out of ideas, or when I don’t feel like fighting with the kids about what is being served for dinner that night 🙂 In any case, here is the recipe,... Read more
Seize the moment. “Get ‘er done.” Carpe diem. Yada, yada… There are times in my motherly world where such phrases pass in one ear and out the other. How much I wish they would stay put in my feeble brain, ruminate, marinate and cause action on the other side. They often don’t, but I’m trying to change that. Dishes left in the sink at night? Just do it. Laundry in a pile in the hallway? Get ‘er done. Laziness breeds... Read more
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