2020 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites
As another year comes to a close it is painfully obvious that I have written very little. I don’t know why that is as time was more plentiful than usual. Discernment is in order, for sure. But in the meantime, I am starting the new year off right with an...
What I’m Reading These Days: Booktober and More
I’ve always been that girl with her nose in a book. Yet somehow in recent years I have realized that I am spending more and more time reading news online and less and less time sitting down with a good book. This month I decided to do something about that. I...
2019 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites
It’s become a yearly tradition for me to highlight the year’s most-read posts (according to WordPress stats), and also to share my favorite posts from the year. Many of the most-read posts are oldies-but-goodies, and I choose to celebrate their staying...
How to Fit Regular Prayer into Your Busy Life: It’s Not What You Think
For most of my adulthood, my prayer life has consisted of Mass on Sunday, various random calls on God on the saints as necessary throughout the day, and petitions in bed at night–if I did not fall asleep first. I would marvel at folks who attended Mass daily,...
Election Day Redux
Confession time: I am still not over the 2016 Presidential Election. I don’t know that I will ever really get over it. To go from euphoria to despair in just a few short hours, and then to see many of my fears realized over the past two years–it has...
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Here is my latest post for Inspire Daily. If your parish uses the MyParish app, you can also find it there!
Let Us Go Rejoicing | Life in Every Limb
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Can we resolve to appreciate Sunday Mass as a privilege rather than looking on it as a chore? Can we resolve to “go rejoicing”?
Google tells me that a myth is “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events” or “a widely held but false belief or idea” or “a misrepresentation of the truth.” The Thanksgiving story is all three.
Let's Talk about Thanksgiving | Life in Every Limb
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The popular story of the First Thanksgiving is a myth and it is time for us to reckon with it. How can we celebrate more authentically?
Michael Gerson has died of cancer at 58. I remember reading this one before and it is especially poignant as the last of our five kids will go to college in the fall.
Opinion | Michael Gerson: Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster
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Michael Gerson died DAY at 58. For 15 years beginning in 2007, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Post — including this beautiful meditation from 2013.
Are you getting a little excited for Christmas? I like to get all my shopping done in November so I can concentrate on Advent in December.
A Very Catholic Christmas Catalog
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Keep Christ in Christmas this year by giving gifts that encourage faith, prayer and hope in Jesus Christ!Catholic gifts are a great way to evangelize and com...
Who doesn't love St. Francis? Here are gift ideas inspired this favorite saint.
5 Catholic Gifts Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi - Prayer Wine Chocolate
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Do you know someone who loves Saint Francis?! Chances are, you do. My 10 year old son dressed up like him last year for the All Saints parade at his school. My brother-in-law wears a Saint Francis med...
