The other day something terrible happened to a friend of mine. She was on Facebook and got notifications that someone was tagging pictures she had uploaded of her 12 year old daughter. She clicked on the notification to find the pictures of her daughter elsewhere on Facebook and tagged NOT …
Ah…this saying…my spiritual director taught it to me almost a decade ago. Lord make them happy in this life and with You in the next. Yet I have gone for long spans of time completely forgetting it. I fall into the bad habit of dwelling on negatives in others and …
Last year I did something CRAZY!!! I started a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 1 at our homeschool co-op just a few short months BEFORE co-op started. I started “planning” in the spring, found a guide, got permission from the co-op director and pastor. However, the guide wanted to …
I have been meaning to share about this Advent tradition I started in our family many years ago. This year I am finally getting to it BEFORE Advent actually starts and therefore will finish this post. We have many Advent traditions. Most of which we learned over the years from …
This is the first year I decided to pray the St. Andrew Christmas novena with my children. In years past I have prayed it on my own, so I only had one prayer card. I went to go print the prayer off for all of us and remembered that I …
Ecce Crucem Domini Fugite partes adversae, Vici Leo do Tribe Juda, Radix David, Alleluia This is one of my favorite prayers. I say it multiple times a day. In fact, I just went around my home spraying Epiphany water while saying this prayer. A wonderful priest introduced our family to …
Traditionally, as Catholics, we celebrate Christmas from Christmas day,…meaning midnight, hence Midnight Mass…until February 2, Candlemas, The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you are around my age, your parents celebrated Christmas this way as an essential part of their lives. I remember my grandmother, every year around Thanksgiving …
A friend just returned from his trip to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines. I had never heard of this before he told me he was going to it. The photo above is of the Eucharistic procession from the Cebu Capitol building to Plaza Independencia. This took place …
We are so blessed to have a shepherd, not only recommend this in his sermon, but have it printed in our bulletin. (To be prayed at least once a day, and in time of temptation- especially by those who struggle with habitual or repeated sins). Heavenly Father, in the …
You know the drill. You sit down with your kids to watch a funny YouTube video and WHAM…something completely unrelated and inappropriate pops up in the sidebar. You hurry to cover the screen, but it’s too late. Your little ones eyes have already taken it all in. Then there are …
