A Final Goodbye
It's been a couple of weeks, or just a week and a half I guess, and I haven't posted here because I just wanted to process the finality of mother's…
Quarantine Sunday
On this quarantine Sunday, as he has several days this week, my beloved husband woke early and went out to the grocery store in search of breakfast, and perhaps a…
Easter 2019
In many ways I feel like I missed the Easter season this year, because I missed the observance of the Paschal Triduum: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Paul…
Thank you, Lord, for hard days.
Every night (with rare exception) since before we were married, my husband and I have prayed together. It's a commitment we made early on when we were dating that I…
Signed and Sealed
August brought the most eagerly awaited event of the past 3 years. On the 18th of the month, the Church welcomed Natalie Gianna Cecilia, Xavier Ninian Gregory, and Jordan Benedict…
Blessed be the Name of the Lord
It’s a mom thing that we do, we mom-bloggers - we like to brag on our kids. When they get a great new job, or score well on an exam,…
Twice Adopted
In what was for me, the culmination of four years of waiting on the Lord, on Saturday, November 14, 2015, Efrain Rafael Athanasius Heidmann was finally baptized and became a…
St. Joseph the Worker
From the CatholicCulture.org: The feast of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labor and give to…
Hendrick Ter Brugghen, St Mark, 1621, Historisch Museum Deventer
Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist
Today's passage is taken from the Lectionary reading for April 25, on the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist. 1 Peter 5:8-10 The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) 8…
So this happened…
We've taken the plunge. Paul and I have applied to begin studies at the Kino Catechetical Institute this fall. Assuming we're accepted (and who knows, that might be a long…