On the calendar this week, we celebrate the feasts of St. Paul Miki and Companions (February 6), St Jerome Emiliani and St. Josephine Bakhita (February 8), St. Scholastica (February 10) and Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11). St. Paul Miki and his Companions lived in 16th Century Japan. They were martyred by being...
Today I am joining Leila over at Like Mother, Like Daughter for this week's {pretty} I wrote earlier this week about visiting the Carmelite Sisters in Savannah, Georgia. They were all so beautiful that I wanted to share the picture again. {happy} A few weeks ago, we made homemade from scratch bolognese sauce and...
This weekend we went to Savannah, Georgia. It was my first time in Savannah and I was really excited to go. We heard that there was a cloistered order of Carmelite Sisters in Savannah, so we went to find and visit them while up there. As we had no appointment or any contact with them before hand, I was a bit hesitant...
Ron Paul IS Pro-Life Being Pro-Life Is Necessary to Defend Liberty by Congressman Ron Paul Libertarians for Life Copyright 1981 Pro-life libertarians have a vital task to perform: to persuade the many abortion-supporting libertarians of the contradiction between abortion and individual liberty; and, to sever the...
So we grilled our turkey and let me tell you, it was awesome, awesome, like totally awesome. We will probably do it like that again next year. On to bigger and better things. We ordered chickens this week and starting in January, we will have 15 chickens hanging around the house! The kids and Joshua are looking...
The always informative, yet amazingly down to Earth, Jake Tawney has a wonderful blog to which he has dedicated much time and effort in to helping us understand the new translation. His blog Roma Locuta Est, not only has wonderful information about the new translation, it is full of other wonderful information about...
In just a few short weeks, the English speaking Catholics of the world will be praying the prayers of the Mass just a bit differently. What has your parish been doing to prepare for the changes?
August 5 is the celebration of the Feast of St. John Vianney, also known as the Cure d'Ars. St. John Vianney was a simple man, who struggled through studies to be ordained a priest. He transformed a town ravaged by the French Revolution into a devout town and became famous as a confessor. It is told that this...
Below is a a blog post written by Mandi at Catholic Newlywed. Check it out: Open to Life As promised in last week's Quick Takes (#7), here is the story about how my husband and I went from terrified of becoming pregnant to currently 17 weeks pregnant (and so excited!) in the course of 11 months. It's a very...
Osama Bin Laden - as everyone knows - has had the gravest responsibility for spreading hatred and division among people, causing the deaths of countless people, and exploiting religion for this purpose. Faced with the death of a man, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibility of everyone...