Each morning, I pray the Canticle of Zechariah during Lauds. And I do my best to think about the words uttered by Zechariah, father of Saint John the Baptist, more than 2000 years ago. But there are some days of the year when the emotions these words bring to me are so overwhelming I can…
I have a lot to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving!
Yesterday was the Solemnity of Christ the King, a fairly new feast for the Church. The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as an antidote to secularism, a way of life which leaves God out of man’s thinking and living and organizes his life as if God did…
Yesterday was CatholicMom.com’s Small Success Thursday, and when I read the four posts ahead of mine, I saw a common theme: hardly anyone could easily come up with their successes. And I’d had the exact same problem when I sat down to write my own post. This really made me stop to think about why…
Welcome back to CatholicMom.com’s Small Success Thursday! We get together once a week to celebrate our successes – large and small. This week, I’ve managed to get to daily Mass both days it was offered, which is something I should do more often, but haven’t seemed to have been able to get done for the…
Have you had some kind of success this week that you’d like to celebrate? It doesn’t have to be big, and you don’t even need 3. Join CatholicMom.com each Thursday and tell us about your achievements! For me, there’s just one Small Success I want to share this week. After all the battling my 15…
Welcome back to the CatholicMom.com linkup for Small Success Thursday! Join in the fun, celebrating the things that have happened this week that make us thankful. Sometimes, it’s the little things that add up the most! My Small Successes this week? My older daughter plowed through The Da Vinci Code the other night in a…
I’m pleased to be joining CatholicMom.com for Small Success Thursday. In our house, we have a board with answered prayers, though I admit (somewhat ashamedly) that I haven’t been putting things on it lately. It’s not that we aren’t thankful, it’s just that it’s become a part of the background scenery of our home. Today,…
Domestic Vocation 