Weekly Giveaway: An Awesome Catholic Trio o’ Books

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Summer is coming, which may or may not inspire fear and trembling within you. So, thanks to some authors who love their faith and have written books that I think your family NEEDS this summer, I have a trio of Catholic books to give away this week. Three awesome books, one lucky winner. Annnnnd, because [...]

21 Ways to Worship (and then some)

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Anytime people start talking about Eucharistic Adoration, one question always seems to come up: “A whole hour? What’ll I do for a whole hour?” Thus begins Vinny Flynn’s new book, 21 Ways to Worship: A Guide to Eucharistic Adoration. I’ll admit, I only read it because my arm was twisted. I thought I knew the tone it [...]

Cheer for the Sisters of Mary

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This Thursday, May 23, marks the end of the American Bible Challenge saga for this year, and the Dominican Sisters, the “Sisters of Mary,” are in the finals. No shocker there. I’ll be cheering for them on Thursday (note to husband: don’t let me forget!!!). Will you? {Embedded video link} Here’s the scoopola from the press [...]

Support the Sisters

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I’m like the little white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland this morning, and I didn’t get my thoughts all arranged, but it’s Monday and I have a book to give away and and and and… So we’ll keep it simple. To enter to win a copy of The American Bible Challenge: A Daily Reader, leave a comment [...]

More or Less (or Something Else?)

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It was the Saturday before Easter, as I recall. I had rolled out of bed to work on my honors project, and I was putting the coffee into the coffeemaker when it struck me that it was VERY STRANGE that someone was having a cookout at 8 (or was it 7? or 9?) in the [...]

Why May and Mary go together so well…

…cue the music (or is it just me?). I’m over at Catholic Exchange: This is one of those years where it’s striking me particularly hard that May is Mary’s month. As busy, as crazy, as chaotic as it is, it’s Mary’s month. As hare-brained as I am, as filled to the max with unfinished tasks, as [...]

7 in Pictures

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I don’t take as many pictures as I used to. But, because I think maybe my Number One Fan and some others of y’all might just, you know, need a break from my words…here you go: — In bloom — The apple trees: The redbud: The lilac in the farrrrr corner: — Bouquets — — [...]

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