- Catholic Spirituality, Catholics Do What?, Evangelization, Family Life, feast days, liturgical living, saint days
Liturgical living for the lazy mom
Hey, do you have a kid or several and are trying to raise them Catholic and sort of had no idea, when you were growing up, that there were liturgical seasons, let alone an entire liturgical calendar…
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Coffee Clicks {September 29th}
Hey it’s Michaelmas. Which means you can totally get away with ordering chicken wings for dinner and calling yourself a liturgical boss. (Just don’t skip on the diablo hot sauce.) This past week felt so heavy in…
Ignatian spirituality for moms
My spiritual director (who is probably off somewhere directing an 8 day Ignatian retreat right now) will probably cringe at this attempt to condense the richness of Ignatian spirituality to a blog post, but then again, he…
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The Franciscan Option
(By Franciscan I’m referring to Franciscan University of Steubenville and not the venerable religious order, about which I know less.) It looks a little like the Benedict Option, actually. Could also probably be called “The FOCUS option” or “The…
A father’s anger, a father’s love {guest post}
On this feast of St. Joseph the worker, I wanted to feature something written by another Joseph, a friend and father whom I admire greatly. He shepherds his growing little flock on the domestic front, and he also…
Let him wash your feet
Today Lent is over, but Easter has not yet arrived. We enter into the Triduum, the holiest part of the Christian year, the 3 day climax of the liturgical season that bridges the impossible gap between Lent…
We wish you a Merry Christmas
…And we’ll see you in the New Year! Some of my favorite Christmas carols (and one surprising modern addition) for a blessed Christmas weekend to you and yours. May the peace of the newborn Jesus, frail and…
A Simple Advent Plan
And I do mean simple. In years past I’ve delved deep into the Church’s liturgical traditions and a mish mash of my own childhood to begin piecing together what our little family’s observation of the season would look…
- Catholic Spirituality, Catholics Do What?, Evangelization, Family Life, feast days, liturgical living, Parenting
Raising saints {with a little help}
The other Friday night I helped shovel lackluster chicken nuggets (GF so no surprise there) and carrot sticks into the mouths of my young before we jumped in the car to head downtown, fighting wrong way rush hour traffic into…
- Catholic Spirituality, Catholics Do What?, Evangelization, feast days, Italy pilgrimage, liturgical living
Defend us in battle
Today is Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael, the archangel, and actually of the rest of the archangels, too. I’m not building my kids a satan piñata to smash or baking anything with blackberries, but those are…