Pin ItA friend was told by a priest once that she needed not an hour of adoration, but an hour and fifteen minutes of adoration every week. Why?  This is the most interesting answer I’ve ever heard, and I think of it often when I am sitting in the Presence of our Lord, distracted as [...]

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Pin ItHow’s your hay?  We are one week away from Christmas, and rather than getting caught up in counting the shopping days we have left, I need to focus on the days for hay-gathering.  It’s time to recommit to making little acts of sacrifice, kindness and generosity each day of Advent.  To give gifts to [...]

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Pin ItWe’re rather used to reading personification in our fiction, where animals and objects take on human qualities like talking, seeing, and even feeling emotions.  It probably doesn’t give you pause to read about the stars “seeing” the Christ Child laying in a manger filled with hay.  If you take a moment to ponder what [...]

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Pin ItSt. Therese of the Child Jesus, a saint of just over 100 years ago, wrote often of her “Little Way”.  She believed that doing simple, everyday tasks for love of Christ and love of souls is the way for most of us to worship Jesus, the King.  She had a special heart for the [...]

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Pin ItOne of the first things that new parents worry about is where the baby will sleep (and how the baby will sleep).  How many books are there on the market about babies’ sleep habits and parents’ struggles with them?  It is compelling that the Son of God was born with no crib, no proper [...]

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Pin ItI love Christmas music.  Not only does it fill my heart with joy to listen to my 4-year-old son learn the words and watch my 18-month-old daughter boogie to the beat, but the tunes of Christmas songs are so rich with memory that reminisce seems to drip from the pages of the hymn book.  [...]

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Pin ItThe feast of St. Lucy or St. Lucia is this weekend, on December 13th, which is also Gaudete Sunday.  It’s hard to believe that we’re already to the rose-colored candle, halfway through Advent!  I feel like it’s just begun… St. Lucia’s Day St. Lucy’s story is an awesome tale of fierce dedication to the [...]

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