Poor Ms. Daisy. She’s been going through a terribly rough time since our middle son moved out after his wedding. In fact, I believe she’s been completely traumatized.
When Luke still lived at home, Daisy slept in his bed with him whenever he slept and then nestled into the bedding alone when he wasn’t around. No (more…)
Yesterday, those of us living in the United States celebrated our Independence Day, commemorating the day in 1776 when the new American colonies declared their independence from England. Since then, each year we celebrate our freedom with parades, picnics, and fireworks all across the country.
Today, we have another reason to celebrate – this time with the universal Church – as we commemorate the release of Pope Francis’ first encyclical, Lumen Fidei, or the Light of Faith. The encyclical reflects on the Year of Faith and was begun by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI while he was still Pope. After his resignation, the (more…)
I had a great chat with Sean Herriot this morning on Relevant Radio’s “Morning Air.” We talked about the importance of praying the Rosary and I shared some insights from my own life in regard to the necessity and benefits of this beautiful form of prayer and meditation.
For me, there are three main components of praying the Rosary:
1. Educative: When we pray the Mysteries of the Rosary, we (more…)
Why say the Rosary? Listen to Relevant Radio’s Morning Air with host Sean Herriot tomorrow, Thursday, June 27 at 8:40am CST and you’ll find out. Sean and I will be chatting about the importance of saying the Rosary as part of Morning Air’s Fornight for Freedom programming. You can listen Read more
Pope Francis’ General Audience address is packed with words of wisdom and encouragement (as usual), but there is one line that especially sticks with me. “This tells us that no one is useless in the Church – no on is useless in the Church! – and should anyone chance to say, some one of you, ‘Get home with you, you’re useless!’ that is not true,” he said earlier today at the Vatican.
No one is useless in the Church. I like this because it can (more…)
It was an accident, actually – one of those things that come upon you when your mind in in a totally different realm, and God takes you by surprise and snatches you up. The “accident” I’m referring to is my new spiritual exercise.
The exercise began with my new “job” this summer, which is to plant and tend the garden boxes in our back and side yards. That’s (more…)
Today in his Wednesday Audience address, Pope Francis spoke with strength and conviction about unity – unity within the Church as the Body of Christ, unity among denominations, unity among peoples, and unity within the family.
When I think about the word “unity,” I’m immediately drawn to the first and last letters – u and y. I see them as not only letters in a word, but also as symbols of the words that they phonetically represent: you and why. I use this as a mnemonic device to remind myself of our calling as (more…)