Ben and Anthony at the window, watching the guys doing yard work across the street. Forgive me, my memory is a sieve right now. I know I mentioned in the comments of a previous post that I was planning to write a longish post about First Grade and...
When I first began to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Easter and Christmas were a revelation. I never before knew that each of these feasts was not a single day but an octave, a celebration that is so huge and earth-shattering that it takes a full...
Part I: Brother Ass and the Midnight Mommy Vigil Last night started off so promising; but I was skeptical right from the start that it would really be as easy as all that. Anthony was falling asleep at dinner so I went to put him down while everyone...
I’m mostly writing this for myself, to evaluate where I am so far and to do it in a way that makes it hard to weasel out of an honest evaluation. But I figured since I’d stated my Lenten goals publicly I should also be honest with you...
I’m not sure I can ties all these thoughts together; but it seems like somehow all these pieces could fit together to make a bigger picture if only I had the time to sit down and think without interruption. Alas, I don’t have that time...
Recently Daria of the Coffee and Canticles blog had a lovely post titled Worth Doing Badly in which she responds to a promoter of the Liturgy of the hours who stressed the importance of praying on a schedule, finding a quiet time and place for...
The other day on Facebook I was confronted by this quote on my wall: “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace...
A while back Dom posted on his blog about his “Father’s Liturgy of the Hours.” Father told an anecdote in his homily about a friend of his who set his cell phone to beep on the hour every day to remind him to pray for his wife and...
Daria has tagged me in a favorite Bible verses meme. I’m terrible about answering these things in a timely manner. Mostly because, as Dom likes to point out, I overthink them. (DO other people do that or is it just me?) So today I’m not...
