We had a priest friend over for dinner the other night, and I was talking about Fahrenheit 451 , by Ray Bradbury. I was summing up the ways ...

Top Ten Things For Me To Consider Doing (Or Rather, Not Doing) This Lent (Based on things I have done in the past):  10.   Give up me...

A few Lenten links: My monstrously long post on striving for a meaningful Lent. General posts on Lent . Lent in 2012 . Lent in 2011 ...

... I knew people who said and believed that unless one knew Jesus Christ and accepted Him as one's Lord and Savior, one would go direct...

We are well into Lent. And as I struggle, sometimes, with my little sacrifices -- giving up objective goods, giving up bad habits, habits ...

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by th...

"I will attempt, day by day, to break my will into pieces.   I want to do God's Holy Will, not my own!" – St. Gabriel Poss...

Yesterday my dryer died.  (Be careful what you wish for .) Today we shall find out if this elderly friend still has any life left in her, ...

Rejoice! More information in the Catholic Encyclopedia and at Women for Faith and Family.

God put Abraham to the test. He called to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he replied. ... But the LORD's messenger call...

The short answer is, "Because Mom said so." Mom -- Mother Church -- knows what's best for us. And when we follow her advice, w...

Anne-with-an-e : Hey, Betsy, what're you giving up for Lent? Betsy: I dunno. I haven't decided. Anne : You could give up hiding in ...

I started this post yesterday, and then had no time to finish it. I must've been kidterrupted in the middle of it. I scrapped what I sta...

Wish your priest a Happy Anniversary on the commemoration of Christ's institution of the priesthood (Holy Thursday.) Thank God for the ...

aka, Mr. Putter, Narnia and Prayer aka, a Holy Week reflection aka, a rerun from last year aka, I know you understand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Or, "The Story of Atticus and the Man Born Blind." Yesterday's Gospel reading: John, chapter 9. Verse 25: "One thing I d...

Rejoice! We're more than halfway to Easter on this, the fourth Sunday of Lent. For more on "Laetare Sunday," visit the Cathol...

The newest issue of Canticle is out, and I'm privileged the share the pages with some wonderful writers, including the delightful Sarah...

Ramona: "I'm going to give up hanging off the kitchen cupboard door." Betsy: "Wait a minute -- I thought you were going...

Ten years ago, when Anne was four years old, and Betsy was a toddler, I had my first inkling of real Lenten temptation. Oh, yes, previous...