Good morning! Today my second post, “Adoration isn’t flattery,” is up at the Register. While I get used to my new writing schedule, blogging here may be a little spotty, but I have no intention of letting this blog wither away! Please keep checking back (don’t forget you can subscribe: see the top right sidebar), and I would love to see you over at the Register, too. Thanks so much for the congratulations and good wishes! I was really pleased... Read more
Ooklay who’s in the Egister-ray! Read more
The brilliant and apparently indefatigable Elizabeth Scalia, known to many as The Anchoress, is hard at work again, expanding the Book Club on Patheos. Patheos is a newish site, sort of an online clearinghouse for religious ideas and information — a fascinating place! Scalia is the managing editor of Patheos’ Catholic Portal, and she recently asked me to review Brant Pitre’s new book, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper. I will... Read more
Him: I love you. Me: I love you, too. But if you get me pregnant, I’ll stab you in the eye. Him: I have two. Read more
(photo source) This year, I revealed to my husband that I actually kind of like Valentine’s Day. This is despite all the times I told him that I hated it, it’s lame and stupid, and a made-up, over-commercialized saccharine-fest invented by Hallmark and Big Floral. For fourteen years, the poor man has been wondering why, every February 14, I would say I wasn’t mad at him, while I was clearly mad at him. I was mad, you see, because... Read more
Having celebrated 35 Passover seders with my Hebrew Catholic family, I expected already to know most of what Brant Pitre has to say in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper. I already knew that Moses prefigured the Messiah to come; that the Last Supper was a Passover meal; that Jesus is both the paschal lamb and the unleavened bread eaten by the Jews, and that we celebrate this same mystery at Mass. But the... Read more
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. I didn’t even watch the Puppy Bowl, which is what the kids were watching. I sat in the kitchen and ate so much hot spinach artichoke dip that I didn’t even have room for the main dish, which was bacon. Bacon, do you hear me? Okay, I had a few pieces. But I didn’t have room! Anyway, I guess I missed the main point of the Super Bowl, which was the commercials. Sounds like... Read more
to the first ever Faith and Family Mom’s Day Away in Stoneham, MA! It will be April 2, which is the baby’s birthday. Too bad, baby! Mama’s going to hang out with Danielle Bean, Jen Fulwiler, and Rachel Balducci, who will all be speaking at the event: In addition to the talks, our schedule for the day will include Mass, opportunity for personal prayer, adoration, and confession, catered lunch, select vendors, and book signings. I happen to know that the... Read more
Guess what I did yesterday? That’s right, I took the four youngest kids and picked up their older brother from the mountain 40 minutes away because he broke his elbow on the school ski trip; got lost, got lunch for the other kids, discovered I was short one lunch and went through the drive-through, picked up the math workbook we left at the dentist’s office a month ago, got gas, realized that if I tried to find the hospital which... Read more
From the Boston Globe: A Massachusetts antiabortion group has unveiled a bill that would let individual taxpayers opt out of paying for publicly funded abortions. Under the measure, a taxpayer could choose to have whatever portion of their state taxes pays for abortion coverage directed instead to the Baby Safe Haven Law. That law allows parents to leave unwanted newborns at fire stations and other designated locations. I LOVE this idea. Puts those Planned Parenthood ghouls in the position of... Read more
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