Category: The Christian Life

Kevin Miller, over at HMS blog,brings us this article in reference to altar girls and the Vatican document on liturgy that’s in the works. ….He compared it to a document the Vatican issued several years ago which had a similar negative tone toward lay eucharistic ministers of either sex. Parishes still use them because they… Continue reading The feedlot mentality

Bobbi has a really helpful new article up at her website, Revolution of Love, on the nitty gritty of the spiritual life. I think I’m going to print this article out and staple it to my forehead or something.

I attend an informal doctrine class, and today was our “first day” back after the summer. Today the class was on the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation. Sometimes it seems to me that Confirmation is almost a “forgotten” sacrament. For myself, I feel like I don’t know enough about it. I was confirmed in the… Continue reading On Preparation for Confirmation

If I am ever tempted to embark on amateur economics and social history again…. perhaps I’ll save myself a whole lot of typing and just say, “What Jeff said!” Oh, and “what Jeff said here, too!”

I have been struggling with frustration in matters great and small. Why won’t my garden grow? Why can’t we have another baby? Why can’t we get ahead of the home repairs? Why won’t my two-year-old play with his toys instead of my mixer and kitchen knives? Why can’t I find any local SAHM chums “in… Continue reading Stretch out your hand

Today is the Feast of St Martha…. Jesus in the House of Mary and Martha (Vermeer) ….patron saint of housewives (among others.) 19 And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. 20 Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went to meet… Continue reading Today is the Feast of