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Well, it’s been one calendar year since I received the sacraments of initiation. What a year! I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings. I want to take some time and read some of my journals from this time last year. Speaking of reading, one of the unicorn books I mentioned in The Good Friday […]
Yesterday during Adoration I opened to Mark 7: 24-30 – The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith. This passage details an interaction Jesus had with a gentile woman who begged that He cast a demon out of her daughter. The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith. 24h From that place he went off to the district of Tyre.* He entered a house and […]
When I try to convey how it felt growing up without religion, the image of deep, stormy water is most helpful. This image is a common and easily understood metaphor- “I was in over my head,” “I was drowning,” “I was sinking” are all used to describe feelings of desolation, chaos, danger, abandonment. Contrast this […]
After my cohort graduated from RCIA, Julie (the RCIA catechist) gave us each a Word on Fire edition of The Gospels. Incidentally, I wonder if “graduated” is the right word. On one hand, it implies a kind of tiered finality that I don’t like. The Sacraments of Initiation are a door, not a destination. But […]
When I first started going to Mass I liked to mark each song, the day’s reading, and the responses during Mass. At first, I used little strips of stiff watercolor paper, but then I worried that I’d forget these or drop them, and then I’d be littering in church. So I decided to paint the […]
If you’ve read the previous post I made about Bertie the Duck, you may remember that she is not a wild duck. She’s a fat, top-heavy, domestic duck. As such, Bertie is not built for flying. This fact however does not stop her from exercising her wings and taking the occasional short flight. She rarely […]
Yesterday, in my post about the Our Father/Lord’s Prayer, I wondered if I could find a book or two about it so I could learn more and maybe get some of my questions answered. As you know, I am full of questions. So last night I did a bit of web searching and OH MY […]
The reading for today is from Luke 11:1-4 and is like an abbreviated version of the Our Father/Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6: Luke 11: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us and do […]
One of the books I found at the ETC thrift store on Monday is the New American Bible: Catholic Family Edition reprinted in 1992 by Good Will Publishers, INC. It is nice that the text is larger because I’m at that point in my life where I need reading glasses for small font. Family Bible […]
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