The F.U.N. Quotient… snowbound edition
Some cool (heh heh) links! Amazing snow art. The Harbin Ice Festival in China Frozen bubbles
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Helen Alvare in action before a Congressional Committee reviewing on H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.”
Women Speak for Themselves (WSFT) is a pro-woman, pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-family women’s advocacy group I’ve recommended to my readers and listeners before. More recently here. Please make yourself familiar with it on Facebook too. Here’s a video below of WSFT founder Helen Alvare as she testified today at the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and…
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On Spiritual Friendship, from The Christophers
This is a topic that is dear to my heart, and I’m very happy that The Christophers have taken up the subject in one of their newest booklets, written by author Mary De Turris Poust, who coincidentally, also wrote Walking Together: Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship. At his blog, Christopher Close-up, Tony Rossi…
Read MoreThis makes me think… about all the little ways God is calling us…
This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he keeps calling us to come closer. This voice of his is so sweet that the poor soul falls apart in the face of her own inability to instantly do whatever he asks of her. And so you…
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A Blessing for the New Year
May God, the source and origin of all blessing, grant you grace, pour out his blessing in abundance, and keep you safe from harm throughout the year. Amen. May he give you integrity of faith, endurance in hope, and perseverance in charity with holy patience to the end. Amen. May he order you days and…
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A White Christmas in New England…
Taking a little blogging break! See you in the New Year!
Read MoreThis makes me think…. about the magnitude of Christ’s gift to us
“O Deity eternal, O high eternal Deity, O sovereign, eternal Father, O ever-burning fire!… What do Your bounty and Your grandeur show? The gift You have given to man. And what gift have You given? Your whole self, O eternal Trinity. And where did You give Yourself? In the stable of our humanity, which had…
Read MorePrep your heart for Christmas — Listen for 15 minutes — Why Christmas? What do we celebrate?
The preacher is Father James Mallon from Saint Benedict Parish, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Read MoreSt Peter Canisius… a great Jesuit & Doctor of the Church… gave us the first Catechism in print!
Today is the feast of St Peter Canisius, a Jesuit, who was a writer/publisher and catechist of the highest order. I like him because he was the first to ever publish a catechism — and there were like 200 editions of it in his lifetime and it was translated into 12 languages! Peter was one…
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Among Women 171: The Joy of the Incarnation
This week on Among Women we think about the coming of Christmas through the eyes of Mary, as told by St Ephrem the Syrian, a 4th century Doctor of the Church. We examine some of his Nativity Hymns, in a departure from our usual saint segment that typically profiles women saints — after all, he…
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Here it’s coffee and conversation, and where the faith-sharing is often a friendly mix of catechesis and cannoli. It’s a place where we can catch up…
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