Not just on Sundays but all of Advent is filled with moments of quiet reflection. It is in the stillness of our hearts that the Lord waits, anxious to speak with us. Often that is more difficult than we can imagine. To be still requires the virtue of patients and a trust in God.
Continue reading “Good Morning Beautiful Embers Day of Advent”Give Thanks To The Lord
Welcome to the second Ember Days of Advent. While no longer fasting as a part of our Ember Days observances, it is a Friday. Whatever we do, there shall not be meat on the table.
Continue reading “Give Thanks To The Lord”Remembering A Feast Day of Old
Do you like learning new things about your faith? So much of the customs and traditions of old have fallen away, depriving those of us living in a hustle and bustle secular world to miss out on the quiet moments of contemplation of faith.
Continue reading “Remembering A Feast Day of Old”The First Ember Days of Advent
Ember Days. Until I began reading Dad’s text book The Visible Church which was published in 1922 as part of a Catholic Education I hadn’t even heard of Ember Days. Dad received the book to help him study in 1951, when he converted to the Catholic Faith. Little had changed in the teachings at that point.
Continue reading “The First Ember Days of Advent”Cover It In Chocolate
Today is National Cover It in Chocolate Day. Boy, that sure leaves us wide open for interpretation. Cover what? The world? Yeah, let’s turn the world into one giant Chocolate Covered Malt Ball.
Continue reading “Cover It In Chocolate”Spicing Up the Night
Growing up, Dad always made a big pot of Ham Hocks with Beans and Sweet Cornbread to welcome the first day of the year. Yeah, that should have been Black Eyed Peas, but none of us would eat Black Eyed Peas. I passed the tradition of a pot of beans on New Year’s Day on to my own children.
Continue reading “Spicing Up the Night”On the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Let Us Cry Out
O Come O Come Emmanuel. Come into our hearts and bring us the joy of knowing that we are Your children. For now and for always we are Yours and Yours alone.
Continue reading “On the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Let Us Cry Out”The Lights of Saint Lucia
December is the coldest, darkest time of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. It is no wonder that so many of the Holy Days throughout December shine with candlelight.
Continue reading “The Lights of Saint Lucia”A Little Friday Spice for Our Beautiful Lady
When most of us think of our Lady of Guadalupe, we think it must be some sort of Mexican celebration. That would be true, but that’s not where it ends. Did you know that our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas? That would be all of the Americas – from South America through Central America and North America.
Continue reading “A Little Friday Spice for Our Beautiful Lady”Flying Off to Italy
If only at our supper table. It’s been a while since we talked about traveling the world via the dinner table. My thoughts tend to float to Italy during December. Ghee, I wonder why.
Continue reading “Flying Off to Italy”Wednesdays Are Wild
While I like to say Wednesdays in our Menu Planning is Wild as in anything goes, that would not be completely accurate. It’s not like on Wednesdays I wake up and say “let’s go to the market and see what falls into the cart for tonight’s dinner.” The fact that I plan out the entire week tells you even on Wild Card Wednesdays there’s a plan.
Continue reading “Wednesdays Are Wild”It’s Another Spicy Tuesday
Do you have more than one fridge in your house? We have the side-by-side in the kitchen (hate it – too narrow) and a second fridge in the garage. That’s where the cans and bottles of sodas, pounds of butter, bottled water and all the left-overs for lunches are kept. And the booze.
Continue reading “It’s Another Spicy Tuesday”A Blessed Solemnity Feast
Imagine my surprise when the Vatican came out recently to reject petitions within the Church to formally proclaim Mary as “co-redemptory” or “co-mediatrix.” It shows how little I know about certain movements within the Church.
Continue reading “A Blessed Solemnity Feast”On the 2nd Advent Sunday Let Us Pray
Each Sunday of the Advent Season is dedicated to a pray for a particular grace. On the Second Sunday of Advent we pray for Peace.
Continue reading “On the 2nd Advent Sunday Let Us Pray”Go In Peace This Advent Season
There is no recipe to share with this post. It’s just me, rambling through my own thoughts of the moment. Every year our Parish hosts an Advent Mission. It is a four-day lecture to help us to grown in our faith, prepare for the Season and to act as a catapult of sorts. It’s a Mission after all.
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