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Welcome to the Universal Cafeteria
All Catholics are cafeteria Catholics. This is a sad truth, and it is also okay. All Catholics are cafeteria Catholics because all Catholics are sinners. Not one of us can stand as a bastion of perfection in the light of … Continue reading
Real Prayer to The Holy Family
Dear Holy Family. Sorry my brain is not working. Yet here I am, a part of my not-so-holy family. Please help me to be glowing and glorious like you. Amen.
The First Principle and Foundation
The First Principle and Foundation Paraphrased by David L. Fleming, S.J. (Source) The Goal of our life is to live with God forever. God, who loves us, gave us life. Our own response of love allows God’s life to flow into us … Continue reading
What I Wore Sunday: Dress Fail Edition
I saw earlier this week that the new blog Fine Linen and Purple is hosting a linkup: What I Wore Sunday. I am blessed in both this phase of my life and our parish to not have to think much … Continue reading
Wedding Music Drama
Kathleen Basi’s post Confessions of a Wedding Singer reminded me of the typical Catholic quarrels over the music for our wedding. I have heard many a priest moan about weddings and how they dread to see a bride-to-be darken their … Continue reading
Missing God
I miss God. I realized that yesterday as I looked out at the shrine. People were gathering there for Mass for the start of the Year of Faith, and I was at home doing nothing. In the past few years … Continue reading
Faithful Citizenship and Catholic Guilt
I’m not a fan of religious movements that try to make the work of God into a series of now-or-never GOD IS CALLING YOU TODAY, AND IF YOU DON’T RESPOND YOU WILL LOSE GOD!!! moments. But sometimes in life you … Continue reading
Sin Won’t Cause Trouble?
“God won’t give me more than I can handle.” Have you ever asked yourself what you really mean by that statement? I find it is most often brought up out of the deep dark bucket of religious clichés when one … Continue reading
Prayer For Patience
O glorious Saint Paul, who from a persecutor of Christianity, did become a most ardent apostle of zeal; and who to make known the Savior Jesus Christ unto the ends of the world did suffer with joy imprisonment, scourging, stoning, shipwrecks … Continue reading