just another day of Catholic pondering by Sarah Reinhard
A Mary Moment Monday post I find writing my conversion story nearly impossible. It’s not that I don’t have one, it’s that it doesn’t have a lightning bolt “AH-HA” moment. I can tell it so that you laugh, so that you grimace, so that you smack me. I cannot, however, tell it in 2000 words [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post Mary and Joseph’s marriage didn’t exactly get off to an easy start. They were engaged and Joseph had promised not to “defile” Mary, because she was a consecrated virgin. He was really only marrying her because, in that day and age, there was no security in being a single woman. [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post Recently, one of my oldest friends asked me for some insight on the Virgin Mary and the Passion. She’s not Catholic, but she reads my blog anyway (like I said, one of my oldest friends). She had an “assignment” at her church, and she was preparing a talk considering Mary’s [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post So often, she’s there up there. Above me in so many ways: she seems to have it all together, her clothes look nice, and doggone it, she’s smiling peacefully. Why can’t I be like HER? Her life is surely charmed, because the toddler she holds is behaving, and in church no less. [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post She’s there, though I don’t expect to find her. A pile of poop in the corner. A stumble over laundry baskets. A surge of anger. The silence of early morning. The brilliance of the sunset. The soft hair that brushes my face. I find her in more and more places, [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post It was cold and clear. I was pregnant-to-bursting, wearing a shiny red shirt that looked festive but wasn’t warm. Our parish was having a rare midnight Mass in honor of the January 1 feast of Mary, Mother of God, and I wasn’t missing it. My husband, perhaps knowing better than [...]
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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