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  • Musings on My Stinky Veil

    Musings on My Stinky Veil

    A few months ago, while in St. Louis to help care for my Papa who was dying, we attended Mass at a church we hadn’t been to before. Like our kids, we love visiting different churches whenever we are out of town. I realized belatedly that I had left my black veil back home in […]

  • A Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers

    We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time. So I thought I’d share with other homeschoolers who might be able to use it in their homeschool. You can […]

  • We Are Deeply Loved

      by The Rambling Catholic “Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more…” (Romans 5:20) The season of Lent for devout Catholics usually means offering sacrifices and working to have a closer relationship with God. But for the rest of us, especially in Catholic countries like the […]

  • Intentional Prayer Time

    A guest post from Michelle Siaotong Llaban. My deepest desire this year is to be closer to God, be at the highest state of grace possible and always fill my days with thoughts of the Lord. I wake up 6am daily to bring the kids to school, after that would be hundreds of errands, work […]

  • How I Organize My Life, Part 1

    Organization is such a personal thing, I hesitated quite a bit before writing this. If you knew me in person, you’d probably think: she doesn’t have it together at all, what’s she doing giving organizing advice? Let’s get the confessions out of the way. Much as it’s a shame to admit, I’m still undoing years […]

  • Sacred Heart of Jesus

  • Why Read the Old Testament?

      A recent discussion with a loved one set me thinking. He asks, why read the Old Testament? It’s supposedly filled with confusing passages, lots of violence, not much that could be applied to daily life, unlike the New Testament. I begged to differ, hence this post. Jesus (hence the New Testament) is the fulfillment […]

  • On Cassocks and Conduct and Modernizing the Church

    by The Former Sapphist.   A continuation of a series, until the lewd #metroseminarian poster is removed. It has been about a week since I published my displeasure with the controversial metro seminarian photo. Much has happened since. People were throwing ad hominems from both sides — friends of the seminarians, friends of the laity, friends of […]

  • This Is Your Marriage On Social Media

    I wish I were clever and resourceful enough to come up with a commercial similar to the one below, to illustrate how we treat marriage on social media. We do not realize just how serious a responsibility we bear when we ask for or receive advice about marriage online. Numerous blogs and websites offer generic […]

  • On Metro Seminarians, Cassocks and Conducts, and Modernizing the Church

    by The Former Sapphist THESE ARE THE KINDS OF STUNTS that give millennials the reputation they have. After a long night of struggling to get some sleep because of the unforgiving heat, I woke up to this photo in my Facebook inbox. Two friends had sent me messages to get my insight on it. I […]