Welcome to Pancake Day

Today is National Pancake Day. My Dad made the best pancakes ever. And that’s a good thing. He worked construction. If you know anything about construction, you know it’s not a year-round job. The rains of winter signaled a tightening of the belt as construction work came to a crawl.

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Have a Little Faith

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, unlike other Marian Devotions that revolve around a vision or appearance of our Blessed Mother, is a devotion born of a promise. She is best known for the outcome of the Battle of New Orleans.

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Saint Thomas Aquinas and Blueberry Pancakes

In our parish, shortly after the secular New Year, the Church hosts a series of lectures. These generally lead up to a recruitment of parishioners interested in small faith groups to study Church teachings on a particular subject during Lent. Last year the series was on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This year the focus is on End Times and the teachings of the church.

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Wake up with Pancakes!

If you’ve been following along for a while, you know that I tend to plan out our family meals way, way in advance. As in months in advance. That said, our meal plan isn’t finalized until a day or two before shopping for the week.

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