Do you want to really feel and understand the sacred rhythm behind the Liturgical Year? Like me, have you spent years sitting in the pews thinking, “Why do we even bother?” Because the only differences you can perceive in most parishes between, say, Ordinary Time and the Easter Season are different felt banners and different sacro-pop songs strummed during Communion. As…
(Dr. Peter Kreeft on Orthodoxy | Catholic Living | Pinterest.) I was so happy when I found that quote yesterday! Like so much of Dr. Kreeft’s writing, it succinctly expresses a much-needed truth reflecting on our modern times. (Also during my internet travels last evening I found this blog post, Five Positive Ways You Can Be a…
The tenderness and completeness of this prayer for conversion, from a Victorian-era prayer book, will make you feel like you’ve done a good deed for the day once you’ve prayed it! For the Conversion of Another Incarnate God! my divine, my adorable Redeemer! who art the way, the truth, and the life, oh bring him (or…
Do you ever emotionally struggle with your parish’s lack of sacredness during the celebration of Holy Mass? Is the celebration of Mass loud and distracting, banal or ugly, casual and secular-flavored where you are? Do you have to grit your teeth each and every Sunday morning, wondering how you’re going to get through the next hour? Over…
(If “Gnosticism” sounded like a disease to you, please know that you’re right–it is a deadly disease, of the soul!) Modernism, that many-headed hydra of the 20th Century, has brought the terrible heresy of Gnosticism back to our world. Gnosticism was a major heresy primarily of the Second Century, but now it’s back! Does it affect your thinking? Take…
Read, read, read, that’s all my husband thinks I do! It is all I do, actually. But I don’t like to read alone, I like to share. So here are some of my favorite quotes from my current reads this week. + – + – + – + – + – + – + – +…
Being created in the image of God, with both soul and body, we human beings NEED art. Certainly I need art, and this Lent I have discovered two amazing artists whose works are like spiritual vitamins to my soul! They were both Frenchmen, and Catholic. From very different periods, using different media, and totally different styles…
May they (the heavenly host) praise you, Joseph! It’s the Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin! Some ideas for today: Listen. Those popular consecrated religious artists the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, among others, have recorded a beautiful polyphonic version of the Te Joseph Celebrent that everyone should hear. These sisters also…
In many parishes and Catholic homes in the West, the tradition of feasting has been lost. It seems a quaint relic of the Age of Faith to so many people. But we Catholics today MUST celebrate feast days, because prayerfully celebrated days of the Church Year are the lifeblood of the Domestic Church. Yes, we must…
As you might have guessed, the post from the other day about being a Catholic artist, that is, expressing your Faith actively through art, describes an ideal that I am embracing wholeheartedly. For one of my first projects I am working on a hand-embroidered missal cover for my dear mother. I told her that everything of a…
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