Lauds by Paul Murray, O.P. All things The Lord has made, O bless the Lord, Give glory and eternal praise to Him. . . Together with our morning papers’ dead: unsmiling heroes, war-jaded, no longer game, the old, the maimed, you also, your stoic...
Since I’m on the subject of poetry lately, I thought I’d mention a couple of books the kids got for Christmas. Or to be more specific, that Sophie got for Christmas. Hist Whist by e.e. cummings, illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. I wrote...
Sophie is suddenly keenly interested in antiphons. One morning shortly before Christmas she came to me to ask a question about why the antiphon for the invitatory psalm changes. (Even if we don’t make it through Morning Prayer, I often at...
Sam Rocha writes about the home as a domestic church, whose rituals echo the mystagogy of the liturgy: If our home is a “domestic church,” then it should look, sound, and feel like a church, especially if we live with children. Why? Because churches...
Lord, open my lips This morning we had one of the best catechesis sessions ever. Totally not my doing, except that I was open to inspiration and ran with it when I saw what was happening. It was also one of the best experiences of lectio divina I’ve...
A friend on Facebook shared this fascinating article about sleep: Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of three to four...
I’m jumping in on the CatholicMom.com discussion of Forming Intentional Disciples. Here’s the prompt: What does it mean to form “intentional” disciples? In the introduction to Forming Intentional Disciples, Sherry Weddell writes...
At the beginning of the month I finished this new biography of St Francis of Assisi. I’ve been meaning to write down a few thoughts about it, but it keeps getting pushed to the back burner. But now that our new pope has taken the name Francis...
Finished in February 1. The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) by Neal Stephenson In the end I really liked the Baroque Cycle. Though I found much of Quicksilver tedious and parts of the beginning of The Confusion made me want to give...
Since I wrote my piece, Motherhood, Isolation, and the Meaning of Christian Brotherhood several of my favorite bloggers have chimed in with their own perspectives on the topic of helping young struggling mothers by building community within the...
