Fourth Sunday of Advent
Sensory Overload
By Pinkie While at University I spent a summer on an archaeological dig. We lived in platform tents in the woods and drove about thirty minutes to get to our dig site and "town," which was very small. A few people had cell phones but it did not matter because there...
Third Sunday of Advent
Vanity
By Maria Jacinta. "Humility, humility and humility." This was St. Bernard of Clairvaux's response to the question of what the three most important virtues are. During Advent I only pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. I love meditating on Our Lady's humility when...
Being Mantled by Mary
By Misericordia. Last week one of my friends who is a religious brother told me his vocation story. He described the many graces and providential happenings that led him there and at one point said, "Our Lady was 'mantling' me." I had never thought of there being a...
Feast of St Jane Francoise de Chantal
She was full of faith, and yet all her life long she had been tormented by thoughts against it. Nor did she once relax in the fidelity God asked of her. And so I regard her as one of the holiest souls I have ever met on this earth. - Saint Vincent de Paul We should go...
Bush Whacker
By Pinkie. It looked sad. Bare. Lonely. Exposed. Vulnerable. Near death. Like a phantom. On my daily walk I noticed the neighbor's bush had been seriously cut back. It was springtime and it had been pruned. It looked more like a collection of sticks than a living...
December 8th: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady
Father, we rejoice in the privilege of Mary's Immaculate Conception, which preserved her from the stain of sin by the power of Christ's redeeming death, and prepared her to be the Mother of God. Grant that through her prayers, we may come to You, cleansed from all...
Second Sunday of Advent
Old Habits
It's easy to become sentimental about the beauty of the holy habit, so here instead is a little tribute to the ones that are... kind of oddball. I'm not talking about things that are unusual-but-cool, like or ...
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