Hey gang, I’ll be back on this evening with a real blog post. This is just the periodic reminder that Steel Magnificat is almost entirely donor-supported, which is a fancy way of saying we live on tips. Due to my collection of chronic illnesses, I can’t work outside the home and Michael has to stay on duty as a homemaker, so this is our living. Gratuities from gruntled readers keep the utilities paid up so I can keep using... Read more
The other day, on the facebook page, I got jumped on by a commentator who told me I was “so not pro-life and so not Catholic it’s unbelievable.” He was right; I didn’t believe him. I asked him who created him bishop and gave him the ability to excommunicate, and he asked if I was worried. I asked him to point out the Catholic doctrine I had violated and even gave him a link to the Catechism so he could... Read more
If you have ever loaded your child onto a bus to the annual March for Life because you felt it was important, I don’t want to hear you say anything about the children and young adults who participated in the March for Our Lives being “indoctrinated.” If you have ever shown The Silent Scream to your children and then taken them out on Saturday morning to picket the local abortion clinic, I don’t want to hear you say anything about... Read more
This hasn’t been much of a Lent. It never is, but this one was particularly miserable. It started right off the bat after Forgiveness Vespers and did not improve. We ended up without our regular ride to the church we love; we haven’t been able to get to Divine Liturgy since the beginning of Lent and I don’t know when we will be back. Perhaps after we move, which will not be for months at the earliest. Everything is... Read more
For about three weeks now I’ve been quietly letting a commentator run his mouth in my combox. I usually let the combox run to seed when it gets past about twenty comments, unless it’s a fun conversation I’m having with a reader, and this commentator was not any fun. He just wanted to tell anyone who would listen that my friend Mark Shea is a dangerous idiot for claiming that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist. I... Read more
Several weeks ago, I shared my first meditation on the Seven Last Words of Christ. For those of you who don’t know, the Seven Last Words of Christ is a devotion also known as the Seven Last Words From the Cross, the Seven Last Sayings of Jesus or just the Seven Last Words; it involves meditating on the seven last sayings of Christ before His death Good Friday, which can be found across the different gospels. I had explained... Read more
I’ve started wearing a scarf on my head in church. It’s not because “it’s traditional.” I’m at the liturgy; I’m praying to Christ and receiving Holy Communion. I’m already participating in a rich and glorious tradition. The scarf is optional. It’s not because my hair is a stumbling block for my brother. My hair really isn’t all that attractive, and even if it were, I think men need to have more self-control than that. It’s not because “women are sacred... Read more
I’m likely going to get a lot of flack for writing this, but it needs to be said. If I question the validity of worrying about the feelings of white men at this point, I’m going to be accused of hating white men. Never mind that I’m white myself, my husband is a white man, and most of my male friends happen to be white– if I dare to point out something odd in the way we as a... Read more
After He had drunk the wine, Jesus said, “It is consummated.” It was just one night ago, in the Upper Room, that Jesus said “Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then they sung a hymn, and went out to the Mount of Olives, and the Passion of Christ began. Now, it is consummated, and He is drinking... Read more
You’ve likely heard by now that the president wants to have drug dealers executed. And this is not one of those ideas he’s just ranting about; his official “opioid plan” could be released as early as Monday, and it includes the option of executing drug dealers if they were “directly responsible for a death.” I understand that on some levels this sounds like a tempting idea. They’re not nice people, after all. They’re drug dealers, the scum of the earth,... Read more
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