The Presentation of the Lord by Hans Hobein the Elder 

I’m still learning to incorporate the liturgical year into our daily lives.  I finally remembered to do something simple but meaningful for the children on Saturday.  We celebrated Mary’s birthday by having a birthday cake for her.  After singing "Happy Birthday" in English and Spanish (don’t ask), we sang some of our favorite Marian hymns…

The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous; the red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls.  These two rays issued forth from the depths of My most tender Mercy at that time when My agonizing Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. … Fortunate is…

Mass today held special meaning for our family because Ben was such an integral part of mass.  It brought home to me what Jesus was doing when he washed the feet of the apostles.  Ben was absolutely mortified by the whole thing.  Then my friend, Veronique walked by and said, "Now, he knows how the…

Today is Holy Thursday and we will be attending mass tonight at 7pm.  Ben has been chosen to be one of the apostles and Father Richard will be washing his right foot.  My mother said that it is such an honor to be chosen and I can’t agree more.  Ben is completely mortified–he is an…

From Sister Wendy’s Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Faith, page 31: Lent asks us to scrutinize, calmly and in the presence of God, what direction our actions have led us and will lead us.  Are we directed toward God?  Or toward ourselves?  Do we forgive?  Do we pray?  Do we try to be patient? …

The Squires at church were passing out this prayer on Sunday. Mary; Mother of the Unborn Jesus, Mary and Joseph I love you very much. I beg of you to spare the life of the unborn child that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion. Let me live… Let me walk into…

I was inspired by the ladies at my favorite place to "decorate" for Lent.  I’ve been meaning to do this for each liturgical season, but am learning to take it slowly.  One of the things I really liked was saying good-bye to Alleluia.  So, here’s white felt and gold glitter glue. Sister did not like…

Lent is really just around the corner.  Well, tomorrow IS Ash Wednesday.  During my unpacking days, I’ve come across my yearly Lenten reading, In Conversation with God, several times.  I knew I should’ve just put it on my bookshelf, but each time I would think, "Oh, Lent’s far off."  Well, I’m wrong!!!  I’ve been searching…

I found this resource by someone on one of my yahoo groups.  It has coloring pages you can print out of different saints.  It is put together by some high school students (at least they were in high school when it started).  I love finding resources like this.  It gives me such a variety of…