just another day of Catholic pondering by Sarah Reinhard
Spring is well underway–with all its gusty unpredictability, and I’m left with a lot of mud on my hands. It’s on our shoes, in the yard, and seemingly on flat surface of my home on some days. I can’t help but be grateful on so many levels. Mud means spring, and spring means many of my [...]
Remember how I shared a quote on guilt a week or so ago from my Lenten reading? Well, here’s the full column it inspired from me… * Why I’m Glad for My Catholic Guilt Every time I hear someone complain about “Catholic guilt,” I want to throw something. I stumble and stutter, trying to explain [...]
Why, oh why, do I procrastinate on the most important things, things like confession? It’s not like I don’t know better. I once took my spiritual director’s advice and went through a stretch of going to confession once a month. I remember how, though life wasn’t any easier, it was more intentional in many ways. My [...]
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 local farm near us does a reenactment of the Christmas Story every year, loading folks up on wagons and driving them to different stations. One station replays the Annunciation and then the appearance of the angel to Joseph, reassuring him that he should marry Mary. The next shows Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem, [...]
I was minding my own business, really, talking to a mom friend and pushing my toddler on the swings. I didn’t ask the little boy to come up to me. I didn’t even smile his way. But he did come up to me. He wasn’t shy at all, and he even smiled as he asked [...]
A few years ago, my husband discovered golf. I was mildly amused, but not really interested. I had books to read, after all. But then he took me along. I just walked the first nine holes with him, but it made a significant dent in my disinterest. It didn’t seem boring when I was in [...]
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