I spent several hours yesterday wrapping presents. And I still have a couple of really tough-to-wrap presents to go. That, and I need to buy one more gift for one of my sons since the mail isn’t going to get what I already bought here in time. My husband went to Advent confession this week. I confessed a while back. My daughters-in-law are pitching in to help with the Christmas cooking, as is the best friend of one of my... Read more
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I will never play this piece of music. It’s right up there with jumping the Grand Canyon flat-footed and breaking the sound barrier without an airplane. In fact, I have to listen to hear it intelligently, and every time I hear it, I hear something else. It’s Chopin’s Ballade No 1 in G Minor. I’ve taken to listening to it a lot lately, especially as it’s performed by various artists. It seems to speak of the times we are entering, at... Read more
Our Papa is 80 years old today. If you would like to wish him a happy birthday, you can do so by making a comment in his Twitter account, @Pontifex, his Instagram account, or use one of the seven email accounts the Vatican created for this purpose. I hope you take the time to wish our Holy Father a happy birthday. I also hope that those of you have fallen in to the trap of attacking the Pope will call... Read more
We are all called to go out as missionaries and bring the message of God’s love to every person in every area of life. Pope Francis Read more
This isn’t about me, and I’m not trying to make it about me. But I’ve just had one of those experiences when angry people hand me a totally unexpected — and unintended — honor, and I’m too happy about it not to share. I wrote a little post saying, in essence, that no matter what the reaction to Amoris Laetitia, I was standing with the Pope and his authority as head of my Church. The basic thing in the post... Read more
Have you missed me? I’ve been gone for a few days. For the first time in a long time, I haven’t been MIA because I was sick. I’ve actually been celebrating the fact that I’m NOT sick. My anniversary was this weekend. Last year on this day, I had one of the surgeries that was my lot during that period. It was a rotten excuse for an anniversary. So this year, hubby and I did it up good. And it... Read more
I’ve been standing on the sidelines, watching the hate-Pope-Francis movement tear into the fabric of the Church with destructive glee for a long time now. I have absorbed the meaning of the venomous comments, malicious misinterpretations of what he says and deliberate destructiveness without remarking on it. I’ve been silent, hoping it would run its course and wear itself out, that the obsessed people who are focusing their internal rage on Pope Francis would find another target. But that... Read more
I need Advent this year. I think we all do. I wrote this post, concerning Advent and renewal because I need Jesus. I need His love, forgiveness and strength. I was blessed to have someone I could go to and talk about these things; a generous, loving spiritual mother who did not turn me away. From the National Catholic Register: Come Out of the Cold This Advent Praying for someone does not mean you agree with the bad things they... Read more
Note: I’m re-publishing this because it didn’t come through in its entirely the first time I put it up. I hope it makes more sense this time around. I wrote this a few months ago for the National Catholic Register. I think it’s worth publishing again at this time when we have been so deeply damaged and degraded as a nation and a people by the amoral cruelty of the election just past, and when our Church, which should be the lodestone... Read more
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