Pat Gohn

#Autumn down a country lane in New England Take Two: Sugar Maple Splendor

I found a few more photos in my iPhone…                     Consider this a continuation of yesterday’s post. (There’s even some identification going on regarding the “oreo cows”. File that under “things I never thought I’d discuss in a combox”, but it’s been fun!) Note: Something is…

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#Autumn down a country lane in New England. (Yes, I do live in a postcard.)

The first real frost is forecasted. After that, well, you never know what the colors will be. So late this afternoon as I drove home from my weekly grocery run, the cows called to me and I had to stop and take their picture. The light was coming in at a beautiful angle, and I…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… fun food stuff from our 50 states.

Pun-worthy. Pizza worthy. Ice-cream worthy. … And if you’ve never learned to name the 50 states, this little ditty is ear worm worthy. (You were warned.)

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Perfect! My Badass Book of Saints + the Feast of St Teresa of Avila = A sale!!!!!

  Go to this link to get the sale and use offer code: MARIA I was happy to write the foreword to this book, here’s a little bit from that… St Augustine is often credited with this idea: “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” So, what about us? Do…

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This makes me think… God’s knows every creature, from a flea to me…

“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). This tells us that the world came about as the result of a decision, not from chaos or chance, and this exalts it all the more. The creating word expresses a free choice. The universe did not emerge as the result of arbitrary omnipotence,…

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Among Women features Dawn Eden and her book The Thrill of the Chaste

In this episode of Among Women we examine the virtue of chastity with the author of The Thrill of the Chaste, and a returning guest to AW, Dawn Eden. There is something in this conversation for women in every vocation. Chastity needs cultivating in every state of life! Also in this show, in honor of Our Lady of…

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This makes me think… how the family is threatened, and how that is remedied…

A quote from Pastor Rick Warren, who shared the stage with Cardinal Sean O’Malley at the World Meeting of Families a week ago. He commented on how the family is threatened in today’s society, and what our responsibility is in that regard. “In today’s society, materialism is idolized, immorality is glamorized, truth is minimized, sin…

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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s presentation: The Family, A Home for the Wounded Heart

Get inspired: Watch +Cardinal Tagle from the Philippines give this keynote talk from the World Meeting of Families. Thank you Catholic TV for this presentation.

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