I love reading conversion stories, so I follow Julie D’s link to the Historical Christian blog to read Aimee’s story. I was really captured by Aimee’s reflections on discovering who Jesus is, especially this passage: As I read and...
By prayer, we refer to God all that happens in our life each day, whether good or ill. For there is no difference between a man of faith and a man without faith (or of little faith) with respect to the routine experiences all of us undergo every...
“Brideshead Revisited Revisited” is an excellent essay on one of my favorite books from one of my favorite critics. excerpt: Brideshead Revisited is the story of a religious conversion, whatever else it may be. Conversion is one of the...
from today’s Office of Readings: We felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death, so that we might not trust in ourselves but in God, who raises the dead; from so great a danger did her deliver us, and does deliver us; we...
Adoro Te Devote recounts a dream and interprets it. A good Lenten meditation. Caution: spiders!
My doctor called a little bit ago. Yeah, 8:30 on a Saturday night. He said the biopsy results were negative for cancer. And so, of course, he wants to run some more tests. Because there’s still a chance the biopsy missed something. So...
Last night I dreamed I was taking part in some kind of fund raiser. My mom was counting up the money in our jars. There were millions of dollars, a huge check from a priest. My sister could pay off all her college debts and afford to go to grad...
My sister is coming on Monday to spend her spring break with us!!!
Good article in First Things on translations of some of St John’s poems that have been published in that magazine. Peace be to the poet saints Terese and Francis. I yield to nobody in my regard for Thomas Aquinas� hymn Tantum Ergo. But I think...
Fellow blogger Literacy-chic is also re-reading some of the Little House books. Her thoughts on These Happy Golden Years grabbed my attention: Predictably, the novel was thought provoking. After all of these years, I had forgotten few events, but...
