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My husband Stuart has a fun job. His actual title: “IN Fire Manager / Conservation Practitioner,” while descriptive (he manages fire in Indiana and practices conservation) doesn’t mean a lot to most people. Instead, I variously refer to him as a wildland firefighter (though perhaps Firestarter is more accurate), botanist, ecologist, or restoration biologist depending […]
Saints, in a vague sense, are part of American popular culture. We have the secular definition of a saint as someone who is very, very, good; St. Francis statues at garden centers with cupped hands outstretched to hold bird seed; Saint Peter with halo and wings standing before the pearly gates. I liked learning about […]
Resources Here is a list of resources mentioned in this blog post: Theme: Presence, Longing for Presence I found Practicing the Prayer of Presence by Susan Muto and Adrian van Kaam the same day as Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God from Second Life Resale in Crown Point. I planned to read […]
When I got home from the Good Friday service, my sister Beth, her husband Jeremy, and two daughters were waiting. I wanted to take time to write a little bit about her and what she has done for me before getting to the post about Easter Vigil. You see, even though we were both raised […]
The tipsy-in-love feeling lasted for a few days. By the evening of March 29th, the in-love feeling was still there, but I didn’t feel tipsy anymore. This was great because I had planned to attend Eucharistic adoration for the first time that evening and driving in that state would have been difficult. Beaver Lake Adoration […]
I was about two-thirds of the way through St. Therese de Lisieux’s “Story of a Soul” when I picked up St. Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle, flipped it open to a random page, and started to read. Forward then, my daughters! hasten over your work and build the little cocoon. Let us renounce self-love […]
In the week following the first scrutiny, I kept thinking about sin and praying for God to help me. I continued praying the Novena to the Holy Spirit as well. Sometimes, I pictured myself sitting at the foot of the cross, holding Jesus’s feet when I prayed this but I still couldn’t look up at […]
A few weeks after the Rite of Acceptance, Father Mike asked if I might be interested in helping out with the pastorate bulletin. He also asked when they would be seeing some of this poetry he had heard about. I said I would be happy to help with the bulletin, thankful for the opportunity to […]
After that, going to Mass and RCIA became easier. I even went to a bilingual service for The Assumption of St. Mary. Father Mike looked a bit concerned when he saw me there, but I didn’t know what was going on in English Mass, so what difference did it make if it was in Spanish? […]
Over the weekend, I attended a retreat on the Liturgy of the Hours at the St. Joseph Retreat and Conference Center in Tipton. I had been introduced to the Liturgy of the Hours first by Father Mike and then in a larger way at the Five Day Women’s Silent Retreat I attended in June at […]
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