Fumbling Toward Grace
5 days until U2 and Chicago reunion weekend! This is the most recent U2 song on the countdown, from their album No Line on the Horizon. Fittingly, it is a song Bono said was inspired by the Blessed Mother, and today is her birthday! Read more
5 days until U2 and Chicago reunion weekend! This is the most recent U2 song on the countdown, from their album No Line on the Horizon. Fittingly, it is a song Bono said was inspired by the Blessed Mother, and today is her birthday! Read more
Hello friends, This is the first installment in a new monthly blog carnival taking place at Elizabeth Esther’s — each person posts a link to their favorite post for the previous month, and we can all visit each other and share! Go and check out all the great blogs on the The Saturday Evening Blog Post (love the Norman Rockwell allusion!) Read more
U2 song of the day — Mysterious Ways The Spirit moves in mysterious ways…. Read more
My husband and I are going to see U2 one week from RIGHT NOW. As you can imagine, I am very excited. I’m going to share my excitement with the world by hosting a U2 countdown — a video posting of one of my favorites of their songs, one each, from now until the concert. Tonight — number 7 – Desire Enjoy! Read more
Sometimes, when I read something terrible, or find out about some new kind of oppression, or of a new tentacle emerging from the monster known as the “culture of death”, I have to go and find a poem. Poetry, especially those poems which seek to help us understand God more, bring some comfort. I am an especial fan of EE Cummings. i thank You God for this most amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue... Read more
Please link to this! This short clip from the 2009 ordination of 5 priests to the diocese of New York is the most amazing thing on ordination I have EVER seen. That’s all. Read more
Ok, perhaps that is a pretty dramatic title for a blog post — but it’s a newspaper headline I just saw, and I like it. It’s somewhat apt for the subject line of this latest ramble. Sometimes, I do not know why I have a blog. Actually, I have two blogs. And there are times (like now) when I don’t, for the life of me, know why. Every time I say, “Today is the day! I am going to update... Read more
Go to read the full-text of the article; it’s worth your time. ** 1** There has been a new addition to the Fumbles family — our new dog, Sirius! He is a 20 lb. black terrier mix (mutt), who the shelter guesses is about 2 years old. He was dumped at a pet shop by the owner, who said she just didn’t want him anymore. 🙁 When we got to the shelter we met a few dogs before Sirius (whose... Read more
As I’m sure you know by now, Eunice Kennedy Shriver died today at the age of 88. She was, along with being the sister of John F. and Robert F. Kennedy, the foundress of the Special Olympics, a crusader for the mentally handicapped, and a devoted pro-life Democrat and Catholic. These words from the family website: “It’s hard for us to believe: the amazing Eunice Kennedy Shriver went home to God this morning at 2 a.m. She was the light... Read more
Hello Ladies, I have been on the road so much the last few weeks, first to PA for a family visit and friend’s wedding, then to visit the in-laws for a day, then to Notre Dame for a family retreat — which was really very good, for the most part. Today, Eric has started his new job! He is, of course, so excited, and I am too. I am making a big fancy dinner to celebrate this new beginning in... Read more
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