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Archive: July 2013

Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception

Today was the feast of a saint I’d never heard of before. I found her biography after Bella asked me about today’s saints. St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (1910-1946) is the first saint from India. Canonized in 2008, she was...

Seven Posts in Seven Days

So seven blog posts in seven days wasn’t really much of a challenge to me right now. I had more than enough material to blog when I set my mind to it. In fact, many days I did two posts. Could I sustain it over the long haul and would I want...

On a Mission from God

This morning we had a missionary priest visiting, a Marist Father from New Zealand who has been serving in the missions in Peru and Venezuela for the past thirty years. Now I love missionaries, but sometimes they can be a bit lackluster. This Father...

The Camp

We are now the proud owners of an 8 man tent, which Ben keeps calling a “camp.” Dom set it up in the back yard this afternoon. And promptly four children decided they wanted to camp out tonight. Four children tucked in with new sleeping...

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