Today, in honor of the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, we watched Song of Bernadette, a film about Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl who was visited by Our Lady. There are several versions of the story in film, but the best by far is the 1943 version starring Jennifer Jones and Vincent [...]
“Kathleen Sebelius is about as Catholic as my shoe. At least a Catholic is wearing my shoe.” -Kevin Hawke
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Of all the games our two younger sons Lucas, 7, and Atticus, 5, love to play at dinnertime, their favorite is religious trivia. Here’s a random, annotated sampling of tonight’s questions: 1. What is the first book of the Bible? (They both know this one and what it means.) 2. What is the last book [...]
This is my first attempt at using Evernote to record a piece and then share it with my website, so I’m not sure how it will work out. I’m looking for a good (and easy) way to post audio files from my mobile. I have an awesome audio recording/editing app (Tapemachine) that I may be [...]
I just can’t understand how someone can be so concerned with pleasing God and still fail so miserably. It seems like whatever I do is wrong. It doesn’t seem like I’m getting any closer to holiness. I’m still fighting the same old demons: the O.C.D., the anger, the selfishness, the pride, the seemingly everything. I [...]
My grandma, Ethel Mae Simpson, was quite an extraordinary woman. Born in 1923 and raised in a rather poor environment, she always lived a rather simple life. But her life was extraordinary in that she lived a life of faith and prayer. She was a lifelong member of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church. She married [...]
I made crosses out of the palm leaves we got this past Palm Sunday and put them up in the “new” house this weekend. Kevin and the boys buried the remaining strings and pieces that had fallen off the fronds. (Since they’re blessed, we can’t just throw them away.) Kevin dug a hole and put [...]
I posted on Twitter last week that I could probably work 24 hours a day and still not feel caught up. It’s not that I don’t love my job. I do. I’m where I need to be, right where God wants me. But it’s way too easy to sink back under all that paperwork, that [...]
I know the sky is beyond the branches, even though I can only see it in splotches, in tiny pieces of the enormous whole. My limited perception doesn’t change the reality, the truth. It simply is, whether I see it in its full glory or not. The rest is where faith comes in.
