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
Continue reading about Kevin’s Take: Sebelius Catholic? Nope.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last year sometime, we got a DVD in the mail from the monks at Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma, northeast of Tulsa. It shows them going through their days: praying, singing, and working. “Ora et Labora” is one of their mottos: Pray and work. We have no idea why we were sent this. We probably [...]
“Mommy, if I could be president, I would make it a law that nobody could kill any more babies.” ~Lucas Dalton, age 7
In the end, there were only two, his mother Mary and his apostle John. Is it any wonder that Mary was assumed into Heaven and that John was the only apostle whose life didn’t end in tragedy? All the other 12 apostles — with the exception of Judas, who committed suicide — were martyred for [...]
