and tell you to do something, that would be to stop what you are doing and go to cdbaby.com and buy the Stella Splendens CD by the Schola Sancta Caecilia! It is absolutely beautiful, worth every penny you will spend (which really aren't many), and will become the music you reach for at home, in the car, or on the...
September 5, 1942, the day my mother's parents were united in Holy Matrimony. They are no longer with us, my grandpa dying first in October of 1990 and my grandma passing away in January 1995, however they both impacted my life in ways that I didn't fully know at the time and that in many ways I still don't know. I...
There is a neat new website where you can sign up to pledge for vocations! The goal of Invisible Monastery is to organize continuous prayer for vocations, as suggested by the Vatican. If you feel called, you can sign up via the link above. You will be asked to enter your diocese, how you will pray for...
Wow, wow, wow. When our Holy Father was announced yesterday, I had one thought: WHO?? Then we needed to leave to make it to Margaret's Little Flower Group, so I loaded the kids in the car, without seeing the first blessing. On the way to town, I remembered NPR would be carrying the news of our new Holy Father, so I...
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent: Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; I...
Check back here for links and information about the Conclave! I have posted a different article with the time tables for checking for White Smoke! Yesterday Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, SJ released a schedule for the sessions of the conclave to elect a new pope, set to begin Tuesday, March 12, including a...
Those wonderful people over at Focus Ministries have set up the Pope Alarm. This is your answer to "what happens if the pope is elected in the morning??!!!" All you do is sign up, give your phone number for a text message or your email address to have an email sent when the white smoke starts to appear. According to...
The Church, in her Wisdom has given us the Ordinary Form of the Mass. We, as a Church, are currently blessed with the option (in most places) to attend Mass using the Ordinary Form or the Extraordinary Form. Both are valid in the eyes of the Church and both have beauty and both can be done well or done horribly. I've...
Karol asked if we could go to Mass again today. I couldn't come up with a good reason to tell him no and my heart was telling me to go as well, so we went to the 1210 Mass in Valdosta. Joshua met us there as well, which made it nice. On the way to town, Karol was upset about the retirement of our Holy Father and kept...