Chapter Four: Christ the Good Shepherd and the Eucharist Cavaletti begins by stressing the unique position of the Eucharist. A point that cannot be stressed enough as the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. There does not exist...
A very hot day here, got up to the mid nineties at least. We went to look at a house this afternoon and while we were on the way, Dom’s brother called to invite us to a poolside gathering. Didn’t have to think twice about that. I spent...
I woke up this morning at around six o’clock and popped my thermometer in my mouth to take my temperature. And the promptly fell back to sleep while waiting for the beep. And woke up again at seven after struggling for an hour with the...
Plague Journal by Michael O’Brien is the second book in the Children of the Last Days series, but I’m reading out of order so I started with this one and will read the first novel, Strangers and Sojourners next. I’ve heard...
Yet another Rumer Godden novel. I’m on a serious kick now with several more on their way via Book Mooch. This novel has something of the same feel as In This House of Brede and I think is my next favorite after Brede. Like Brede, it centers...
Chapter 3: Christ the Good Shepherd Begins with question: Should catechesis be theocentric, Christocentric, or anthropocentric? I understand the need for primary focus, but am not sure about the exclusivity. Why not introduce both God the Father and...
Last night after he’d read one bedtime story to her, Bella asked Dom to talk with her. And recounted the events of the last couple of days to him. He came out of her room with a sort of wistful look on his face. Nothing like a heart to heart...
Isabella wouldn’t let me put the painting things away yesterday. Every time I tried, she’d start to fuss and insist that she was “still painting”. So I relented and cleared up after bedtime last night. This morning even...
I’m going through this much more slowly than I anticipated. i was planning to do two chapters at a time; but that would really be monstrously long. There is so much I want to dwell on as I read. I know these notes are already quite long and...
from Karen E.comes this great essay, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. It expresses so eloquently so many of the thoughts I had while I was teaching college writing and literature in my long-ago, pre-children days. There seems, as is often the...