I’m trying to write this post about Hillary Clinton and it’s difficult because the freakin list is so stupid. “She cares about children everywhere”… uh, unless they are in the womb of a poor mother, then she’s down to end their life, or the children killed by drones. She doesn’t really care about those children. The children she cares about are the ones who have parents who have money and can send them to private schools and college who will... Read more
I think that we all know about the person who sits behind you in Mass who has to say every response louder than everyone else and about a half second faster. Yeah, are you this person? Then let me ask you, what’s up with that? For five years I have been going to Mass and there is always one of you behind me at Mass. No matter where I go! Even in Rome. Do ya’ll have a club? Is there... Read more
I have a really huge issue with being a mom and step-mom. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m a selfish person or if I’m a selfish person because I grew up an only child with no concept of living with groups of people and resolving conflict with them but I have an extremely hard time living in a house with a big family. I have a lot of cousins who I lived with and around when I was... Read more
I think that I don’t have it. I have never really cared much about Christmas the way that most people did. I worked. Waiting tables meant that Christmas time came with a lot of doubles to make the bills AND Christmas presents. So that was my life for a really long time: work. I worked and bought my kids presents and watched them open them and then went back to work. Working at a bar meant that I had no... Read more
“To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them. It is he who seeks us! It is he who comes to encounter us! “ ~ Pope Francis’ Homily at the opening of the Year of Mercy I don’t know for sure what is going on with Kim and Kanye West, but I do know one thing for sure: God, who seeks each... Read more
I am a crying mess listening to Adele on the first day of the year of mercy. I can’t even write words that begin to explain how much mercy I have received from people in the last 5 years. I have been replaying every moment of my Catholic life and I see all your faces. Thank you. If anything good comes from the story of my past, it is because you saw past all my flaws and were kind to... Read more
Mercy is central to my life. Without it, I would not be here. I have had mercy showered on me from the first time that I stepped foot in St. William Catholic Parish’s RCIA program (Rite of Christian Imitation for Adults). The first time that the RCIA director, Noe Rocha, looked at me and said the words “God loves you more than you think he does”, I felt it. I felt the Love of God to the core of who... Read more
Can we all stop pretending that Planned Parenthood is the end all, be all hero of Women’s Healthcare? Please. Women are more than their baby making parts. And that is what “reproductive” means: babymaking. We are more complex than just trying to NOT have babies after doing the biological thing that makes babies. We are more than our STDs and we are more than our supposed “need” for abortion. We don’t need any of it. I know it’s not a... Read more
Hateful insults fling from both sides of the abortion debate and fuels violence from both sides. I know that it’s not proper to speak ill about your “side” of this issue, but I prefer honesty. Both sides talk about the importance of truth, so here’s a little. It would be dishonest to say that there are no hateful comments coming out of the mouths and keyboards of pro-lifers. It’s an easy trap to fall into. I’ve done it, it happens.... Read more
I didn’t trust myself or my sense of right and wrong when I first became Catholic. I listened to people who I considered to be good Catholics and tried to do what they were doing. I tried to blend in. Anyone who knows me will tell you that the one thing that I suck at the most in life is blending in. It is just one gift that I don’t possess. I made myself and my family crazy trying so... Read more
Through Broken Roses
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