Our Friday reprieve from abstinence is behind us now. While we are still celebrating the Easter Season, the laws governing Friday Penance and Observations have once again returned.
Continue reading “The Second Friday of the Easter Season”A Day of Feasting and Prayer
It’s hard to imagine that we’ve reached the first day of May. I swear, the older I get the more quickly time seems to move. It’s a strange feeling to realize you have far more to look back on than you do days ahead of you. Nothing is taken for granted anymore.
Continue reading “A Day of Feasting and Prayer”Cornbread Pot Pie – Now That’s Different
Welcome to Day Eleven of the Easter Season! It’s amazing what the Lord can accomplish when we stay focused on His grace and mercy.
Continue reading “Cornbread Pot Pie – Now That’s Different”This Tuesday’s For You, Babe
On this, the Second Week of the Easter Season, the secular life is returning to a normal rythem. It’s Tijuana Tuesday once again. My guys are so glad. Especially Hubby, a lover of all things Mexican. He’s missed my Mexican Flair.
Continue reading “This Tuesday’s For You, Babe”It’s All About Blueberries
One of the things I love about the new life we’ve made for ourselves is the simplicity of it all. Once upon a time we had a very different life. It was noisy and complicated and filled with distractions. I don’t want to seem judgmental, but that’s really no life at all.
Continue reading “It’s All About Blueberries”Merciful Divine Mercy Sunday
Today is the second Sunday of the Easter Season. I love that Catholics celebrate Easter for 8 days as thought it were one continuous, glorious day. I love that there is an entire Fifty-day Season dedicated to the renewal that only Easter can bring.
Continue reading “Merciful Divine Mercy Sunday”Hello Saturday
Tomorrow we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, and the close of the Octave of Easter. That does not mean Easter is behind us for another year. Hardly, the Easter Season has barely begun. It just means that tomorrow is the final Eight Day Celebration.
Continue reading “Hello Saturday”Friday’s Feast of Saint Mark
Welcome to Friday – the 6th Day in the Octave of Easter. It is also the Feast Day of Saint Mark. What a holy day indeed!
Continue reading “Friday’s Feast of Saint Mark”Octave of Easter Thursday
Our Eight Day Easter Celebration is drawing to a close as we are more than half way to Divine Mercy Sunday. I don’t know about you, but this has been a time of great joy in my heart. Each morning I watch the Son’s light rising in the east. I need no other reason to give thanks.
Continue reading “Octave of Easter Thursday”What a Glorious Day for a Picnic
Good Day and welcome to the First Wednesday of the Easter Season. It is very much with a sense of mixed emotions that we celebrate this the 4th day of the Octave of Easter. While the whole of the Church mourns the passing of Pope Francis, it is also a time of joy.
Continue reading “What a Glorious Day for a Picnic”First Tuesday of Easter and Some Spice
Happy Easter Season! Welcome to the Tuesday of the Octave of Easter, a day of celebration. It is now the 3rd day of the Easter Season. We will be celebrating Easter till the cows come home or more accurately until Pentecost Sundy.
Continue reading “First Tuesday of Easter and Some Spice”A Man of God
They called it a miracle that Pope Francis had survived his most recent illness. While not looking well, he made appearances at the balcony to bless the faithful. He seemed to be returning to his role as the head of the Church slowly. Many believed their prayers had been answered.
Continue reading “A Man of God”First Monday of the Easter Season
Walk into any supermarket in America today and you will be greeted with bins of baskets, plastic eggs and chocolate bunnies all priced to move. For the secular world, and even some Christian denominations, Easter is over.
Continue reading “First Monday of the Easter Season”And so The Easter Season Begins
Today it begins – the longest Season of the Church Year. The Easter Season for Catholics does not end at sundown Easter Sunday. It does not end in 40 days on Assencion Thursday, although you would think that would signal the end.
Continue reading “And so The Easter Season Begins”A Quiet Easter Vigil
Of all the Holy Week-Easter posts, the Easter Vigil is always the most difficult to create by far. There are the traditions of Easter Vigil, and then there is our Easter Saturday – two completely different observations.
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