It wasn’t until I became a real adult that I realized just how wonderful and blessed my childhood had been. It’s not enough to turn the legal age of an adult – there is so much more growing and maturing to do. Sometimes I think other cultures have it right.
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Italian Inspired Sunday Supper
Each Sunday has a theme throughout the year. It’s message is contained in the readings selected, and the Homily. On this, the 4th Sunday of Easter we are called to worship. If that’s not reason enough to declare Sundays as a Day of the Lord’s making, I don’t know what is.
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Welcome to February 19. Today is the feast day of Saint Julian of North Africa, Saint Baoithin of Ireland, and Saint Beatus of Spain. Who are they? Haven’t a clue, but I’m sure they must have been good men. Catholics have a Saint for every day of the week.
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Every day is special. Every day is a gift to be savored. Count your blessings. Really, truly count your blessings.
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Just as the Advent Season in marked by the color Purple, so too is the Lenten Season. While purple is considered to be a symbolic color of wealth and royalty, it is also a symbol of penance, humility and a deep sorrow for Christ’s suffering on the cross.
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May has Mother’s Day. June gives us Father’s Day. In July we celebrate Parents Day. And the Sunday after Labor Day is Grandparents Day. Celebrated in the United States since 1978, the US Senate and then President Jimmy Carter nationally recognize Marian McQuade of Oak Hill, West Virginia as the founder of National Grandparents Day.
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Today is the 4th Sunday in this year’s Lenten Season. During Lent, Sundays are exempt from all the rules of sacrifice, penance and abstinence associated with Lent. For that reason, in our house we try to make the Sundays during Lent extra special.
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If this yummy Roast Chicken Supper seems familiar, you aren’t wrong. I shared it way, way back in October 2018. It was part of a nostalgic stroll through childhood memories and Sunday Suppers.
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