The retreat center chapel was overflowing with parents and children – a good thing, not only because of the numbers themselves but because it was a cold, rainy spring night and we welcomed the warmth from the body heat. We were all there to witness the ceremony in which our Read more
Send your greetings with graceful style and support the mission of the Schoenstatt Fathers of India at the same time!
I’ll be in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota April 29-May4. Ladies, please join us for the Mother’s Retreat Monday May 3 at Schoenstatt on the Lake. http://www.schoenstattmn.org
This past Saturday, we attended the ordination to the transitional deaconate of four high-caliber young men from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Between the joy that simply exploded from within them and the awesomeness of the sacrament itself, I was vacillating back and forth from tears to laughter to tears over Read more
Today on my Facebook page, I asked, “If Spring Fever could be measured in degrees, what temperature would you be?” What temperature would you be? I’m pretty sure I’m past 105 degrees, which in terms of the human body is deadly. That seems like gross exaggeration, but if Spring Fever Read more
There are wives fretting over husbands and mothers fretting over sons buried in coal mines in China and West Virgina. The streets of Bangkok are being ravaged by civil unrest. Yet another earthquake has hit – this time in Sumatra. A colleague’s brother-in-law lay in the ICU, near death. And Read more
This morning before Mass I took some treats over to the restaurant at which Monica works – a sampling from her Easter basket and a generous slice of my Grandma’s favorite coffee cake. We didn’t want her to miss out on our Easter Morning tradition just because she had to Read more