Today is the Saturday of Ember Days of Autumn. It is the last of the three Ember Days of Autumn set aside to give thanks to the Lord.
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A Friday Ember Days in Autumn
Welcome to the second of three Ember Days of Autumn. Ember Days are designed as a reminder to give thanks to the Lord for the rains and sunshine, for the birds in the air and all the beauty of life.
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Welcome to the first of three Ember Days of Autumn. Ember Days of giving thanks to the Lord is a throw back to an earlier time in the Church when being Catholic was much more demanding than it is today. Before the changes solidified by Vatican II, the whole of the Universal Church observed the changing of the seasons.
Continue reading “The Beauty of Autumn’s Ember Days”The Tears of Our Lady of Sorrow
Do you love your faith? Does it feed your soul? I cannot speak for other faiths, or even for others of the faithful. I can only speak for myself, from my limited perspective. I cannot imagine life without my Catholic Faith.
Continue reading “The Tears of Our Lady of Sorrow”Holy is the Cross of Christ
If not for Sunday, today would not be a Holy Day of Obligation, yet is a very special day within the Church calendar. It was on this day in 335 AD that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher within the Christian Quarters of Jerusalem was dedicated.
Continue reading “Holy is the Cross of Christ”Holy is Her Name
It’s funny how sometime we get so caught up in things that we fail to notice what should have been obvious all along. Yesterday was September 11. It is a date that will forever be remembered with great sorrow and a profound sense of loss.
Continue reading “Holy is Her Name”Blessed Be This Beautiful Child
To everything there is a season. To everything there is a reason. Nothing in this world is without purpose. It is not always possible to understand. And yet somewhere deep inside we know, we trust, we believe.
Continue reading “Blessed Be This Beautiful Child”The Beauty of a Pure Heart
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes we see an elderly couple out somewhere, and there is something about the way the old man is looking at his wrinkled wife that tells us to him she is the most beautiful women in the room.
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So often Christians hear “There is no God. If God truly existed, why would He allow bad things happen to good people?” Really – that’s your question. I know people do struggle with the idea of evil existing in a world said to be created by God. The two seem to be in opposition.
Continue reading “A Tragic End to the Forerunner”Celebrating a Heavenly Birthday
Catholic teaching and Catholic Faith is really very simple. Every day strive for sainthood. Is that so much to ask? After all, Christ died for us. The least we can do is become saints to glorify Him.
Continue reading “Celebrating a Heavenly Birthday”Bartholomew the Apostle
Today is the feast day of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, martyr and the patron saint of butchers. As one of the twelve, he was present at the Last Supper and a witness to Christ’s ascension into heaven. Many scholars today believe that Bartholomew and Nathanael from the Gospel of John are the same person.
Continue reading “Bartholomew the Apostle”Hail Mary, Heavenly Queen
Why Catholic? The obvious answer from a non-Catholic perspective would be I was baptized as a baby. What choice did I have? That would be a wrong assumption.
Continue reading “Hail Mary, Heavenly Queen”A Holy Day Indeed
Of all the Holy Days to honor our Blessed Mother Mary, this day means the most to me personally. It was 5 years ago today, on the Holy Feast of the Assumption of Mary into heaven that my baby girl was called to her final rest.
Continue reading “A Holy Day Indeed”A Friday Night Under the Stars
The idea of spending a night sleeping under the stars sounds so romantic. In many ways it is. Imagine looking up into the vastness of the night sky filled with shimmering points of light and realizing how small we truly are compared to the universe.
Continue reading “A Friday Night Under the Stars”The Blessed Feast of Transfiguration
The Transfiguration of Our Lord as witnessed by Simon Peter, James and John is so important to the Christian Faith that it appears in the Gospels of Matthew (17:5), Mark (9:6) and Luke (9:35). It is a revelation that is acknowledged in both the Roman and Eastern rites of the Catholic Church.
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