Category: Around St Blog’s

Alicia has a great reflection on faith and obedience, and how following the rules helps save us from the natural consequences of dumb decisions. Our culture, of course, hates rules and parenthood and faith and obedience. So now it is reaping the consequences of hating the rules.

Their excellent taste in professional sports — and in uniforms. Terry does not approve of the Dallas Stars’ new third jersey. But when you put an ice hockey team in Dallas, this is the kind of mutant result you’re going to get.

Kathy the Carmelite is going on hiatus for at least six months; T.S. O’Rama very kindly posted her goodbye. Praying for you, Kathy. You’ve always set such a good example of charity, and in this new chapter you are setting a truly heroic example of sacrifical love through wifely submission.

Weighted bats: Amy Welborn has often asked this interesting question: Why, if the American Church was so healthy prior to Vatican II, did it succumb so easily to the zeitgeist of the 60s and 70s? …I like to think that the Church post-Vatican II is neither as bad as advertised nor the Church prior to… Continue reading Two good posts from T.S. O’Rama

Happy Birthday to Bella, who turned TWO on Monday!

have you checked out Summa Mamas yet? “One fun, one granola, one old…” (although the “old” mama seems to be in the market for a more um descriptive sobriquet….)

Chirp hatched a year ago this week.

I do hope dear Steven doesn’t mind my shamelessly copying so many of his category titles, but he comes up with such good ones! I especially like “Commonplace Book.” Steven is only the third person I’ve ever heard use that phrase. I first encountered it in college, in a little article in Victoria magazine. A… Continue reading Imitation….