Category: Recommended Books, Movies, and More
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Anguish or Suffering?
In my research for this post, I came across this beautiful blogger, Christina Chase. I am so enamored by her perseverance and her hope, I hope you will check her out. I had something on my heart and I wanted to write about a conversation my friend Missi and I…
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Direct Our Hearts Aright
“May the working of your mercy, O Lord, we pray, direct our hearts aright, for without your grace we cannot find favor in your sight.” (Collect for Mass, Saturday March 16, 2024) Discernment During Prayer; a side note I am going to do something a little different in this post.…
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The Four Degrees of Love: Part 4
The final part of a four part series based on a study session with St Bernard and the Four Degrees of Love.
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Where is God waiting for YOU?
Where is God connecting the dots of your life? I am finding my faith and writing are starting to intersect with drawing and painting! Comment with your answer!
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The Four Loves: A Four-Part Reflection
Love is such a simple word but has so many meanings. The degrees to which we are loved and we love is not so simple. Let’s take it one degree at a time.
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Three Chords 🎵 and the Truth; Friend of Franciscan Uses Music to Heal
What do a musician, St Francis and a Native American have in common? It takes three chords and the truth to tell this story.
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“Reclaiming Love” and the Neglected Part of Ourselves
Here is a book that is based on the teachings of Pope John Paul the Great and Theology of the Body. Fr Martin takes these teachings to a practical level and delves into the WHOLE human and how we love.
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Brother Francis presents The Kingdom!
“But the Knights remained at their post. For that is what Knights do…continually protect the Kingdom they love.”
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One Word of Hope
Sometimes it only takes a word of hope to help someone else. And sometimes, an image of hope and love can speak a thousand…
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Fighting For the Wrong Side
Life in “Music City” is amazing. There is so much music, art and joy here in Nashville. One of my favorite things about “Music City” that you won’t hear about on the radio (except for maybe K-LOVE because it’s here too) is that there are so many huge beautiful churches…
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Mercy In The City
Preparing the calendar of events for our women’s section this year, I shared with our Director of Religious Education, Erin, that I felt the Holy Spirit calling us to focus more on Mission during Lent. I met up with an amazing group of young missionaries this summer, acting the part…
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We All Fruit
“Give me a word, any word, and I will show you the root of that word is Greek” How about, Macedonian? The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (2002) is a family favorite in our home for good reason. I am pretty sure someone had a spy-robot-fly-on-the-wall that filmed our…
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Roommates from Heaven or….
“How’s it going with your child’s roommate?” asked a work associate whose child went to the same university as our son. Her daughter had a random roommate assignment as well, only it didn’t work out well for her. The roommate situation that we often see exaggerated on sitcoms or movies…
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13 Reasons Why You Should Watch Joe Verses The Volcano Instead
My kids forewarned me that a new season of “13 Reasons Why” just came out on Netflix, knowing how I felt when this series originally came out. The schools and youth groups were sending texts and emails warning us that this suicidal story aimed at youth audiences was a talking…
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My Bookself
When my kids were little, especially during the winter, they would each pick three to five books and we would go up and snuggle in my bed and read before bedtime; some together, some on our own, but we called it our “book picnic”. I guess the reason we called…
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You Did It To Me
I am currently reading “Mother Teresa of Calcutta; A Personal Portrait” by Leo Maasburg. It’s an easy read and I feel like I am sitting in a room with my uncle who is telling us stories about the good old days. It’s a wonderful glimpse into the life of the…
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Zip It
I was privileged the other day to have a chat with Lovely Ms. Lala about many things, and always faith-based, but the lingering fruit of which was the topic of sins against words. Â Right speech is always a powerful topic with me because I struggle so much with being a…
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Snow Daze…..
IÂ guess it is good that Lent is late this year. I usually use the excuse that living in sun-deprived Ohio, we have little need to “give up” things for Lent. Lent is a season of self-denial, and self-sacrifice in reflection of the 40 days Our Lord spent fasting and praying…
The Domestic Church of Bosco 