just another day of Catholic pondering by Sarah Reinhard
One of my favorite parts of being Catholic during Lent has been the rice bowl program. It used to be Operation Rice Bowl, but this year it got a name change and a facelift: it’s CRS Rice Bowl now, but the same great program by the same amazing people. I started paying attention to what [...]
This month’s activity at CatholicFamilyFun.com is titled, appropriately enough, “Lent Doesn’t Have to be Hard.” Lent doesn’t have to be hard. Or that’s what I like to think. Why, then, do I feel so overwhelmed when I’m faced with all the ideas out there? Why do I catch myself hiding from the inevitability of sharing [...]
Yes, I’m a day early. (Though if it’s always 5:00 somewhere, isn’t it Friday somewhere by now?) But I have to blog today so that he comes home on time and I have a review to post tomorrow and…and…and…well, I can go on. But I won’t. How’s that for a longwinded explanation of seven pictures [...]
As I write this, we’re still in the midst of Christmas fun, but I know what’s going to happen. We’ll clean up the decorations on or slightly before Epiphany. We’ll put the new stuff away and maybe (if I’m lucky) sort through some of the old stuff. And then the snow on the ground outside [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post I was pregnant to bursting and worried. In fact, I was battling worry in a way I can’t really express without tears in my eyes. The midwife wanted another ultrasound. There hadn’t been movement in a while and she just wanted to make sure. We were scared. My husband’s been [...]
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Scuse me. Gotta just say this… Don’t miss yesterday’s Advent wreath link-up, which I think inspired me all the way to next year. At some point yesterday, I realized that THERE ARE ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO ORDER THE FAMILY CALENDARS. It’s become a tradition every year, one that I can’t even pretend that [...]
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