First clue – it’s a Friday, so there won’t be any meat involved. Second clue – it’s made with Elbow Macaroni. Final clue – it’s very kid friendly.
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A Little Heat on a Friday Night
There is a great neighborhood Mexican Restaurant that we love. We could easily walk there from our house. Over the years, we have gotten to know the staff and even the owners. When people have come to visit us, that’s where we take them to dinner.
Continue reading “A Little Heat on a Friday Night”Saint Thomas, the Apostle
Poor Saint Thomas, doubting Thomas. For an Apostle, he sure seems to get the short end of the stick. Saint Thomas is believed to have died on December 21, which by all accounts should be his feast day. After all, it is the day he was called home to Heaven.
Continue reading “Saint Thomas, the Apostle”Mai Tai Fridays
What’s that – June is over? Wow, hard to believe. Today is more than just the last day in June, it’s National Mai Tai Day. And a Friday – that’s a double blessing!
Continue reading “Mai Tai Fridays”The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Today we celebrate two very different yet indispensable pillars of faith – Saints Peter and Paul. Peter was an apostle, Paul a calculated persecutor of the early Church. And yet Christ touched both their lives, transforming them into tools of faith.
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The Catholic Church is rich in Feast Days. For us, our relationship with Christ is more than just Sunday Mass. And even Mass itself is more than just preaching and a lot of Amen! There is scripture, the Homily, and the Communion itself.
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The power of three is something to behold. We are created in the image of God, and God is three beings in a single entity just as we are. There is God the Father – the intellectual existence, God the Son, the physical existence, and God the Holy Spirit, the spiritual being, our souls.
Continue reading “Prepare the Way”It’s All in the Sauce
Happy Friday everyone! Are you all ready for the weekend? Would you believe this is 824 straight days of chatting with you all? So glad you’re come along.
Continue reading “It’s All in the Sauce”Mary’s Immaculate Heart
On the Saturday immediately following the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we celebrate yet another feast involving hearts. This is the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Hers in not to be confused with or equal to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Continue reading “Mary’s Immaculate Heart”Blessed Be the Sacred Heart
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is another of those pesky moveable feasts. Like so many feasts, this one is tied to Easter Sunday, which is also moveable. Here’s how confusing the date is. The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus falls on the Friday that follows the second Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, which is 50 days after Easter. It is the Friday following the Octave of Corpus Christi.
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The Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith. It is the Body and Blood of Christ. For Catholics, Anglican and Western Orthodox faiths this is not a symbolic gesture, but is as real as Christ himself. It is a miracle that is repeated at the alter during Mass throughout the world.
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Happy Trinity Sunday! The Holy Trinity is central to our Catholic Faith. Pope John XXII established this feast day for the whole of the Church in the early 1300s. It has remained a Solemnity Feast ever since. Yet few understand its significance.
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Hello and welcome to the final Ember Days of Pentecost or Summer for this Church Year. We’ve talked a lot about days of old, the how’s and the why’s of Catholic teachings, observations, beliefs and faith. Sometimes people get those confused – that belief and faith are the same. Belief is knowing something. Faith is following without knowing – faith requires trust.
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Today is the second Ember Days of Pentecost or Summer, but the first Ember Days of Summer to receive an optional observation. Confusing, isn’t it? When a lesser feast day (such as Ember Days, which are all optional days) falls on a feast of greater importance, the greater day is observed. This year, Mary’s visit to her cousin, Elizabeth, took precedence over the first Ember Days.
Continue reading “Friday’s Ember Days of Summer”A Visit Between Women of Faith
Today is National Utah Day. It is also the First Ember Days of Summer or Pentecost since it is the first Wednesday following Pentecost Sunday. We aren’t going to talk about either of those days. For today is the Feast of the Visitation of Mary.
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