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Thank You God for Motherhood. Today I Honor You.
#MyMassTakeaway for Fourth Sunday of Easter.
At Mass today, one-year-old Legend didn’t want to sit. Didn’t want me to hold him. Didn’t want to be quiet.
He wanted to walk around (he can walk now) and be independent and play.
I tried to keep him happy for a while with quiet toys but he wasn’t having it. So I gave in and made the hike to the narthex.
He walked back and forth, happy at last.
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How Can Tired Moms Get Their Sunday Rest?
#MyMassTakeaway for Third Sunday of Easter.
Why don’t I get Sunday rest?
Monday through Saturday, I work. I feed and dress kids, teach them school, prepare their meals, and clean up their messes.
Laundry, dishes, cooking, cleaning – they’re all my responsibility.
Sunday comes around. The “day of rest.”
I wake up in the morning.
I get the kids dressed.
Load them in the car, bring them to Mass, wrangle the baby the whole time, come home, make breakfast, wash the dishes, pick up stray laundry, make lunch, prepare for the next school week, make dinner, brush teeth, tidy the kitchen, plop into bed exhausted.
Where’s my Sunday rest?
Several years ago, I complained about this dilemma to my confessor.
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What do you know about children in the Catholic Faith?
We play Catholic Trivia over on Instagram each month. These are the questions and answers to this month’s #4thFridayTrivia game.
Jesus placed great importance on children, in his teaching ministry.
First, there’s the time that the children tried to get to Jesus, and the apostles waved them off, but Jesus rebuked them:
Continue reading “What do you know about children in the Catholic Faith?”“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”
Matthew 19:14
How to conquer the Challenge of Discernment: Pause to Pray
#MyMassTakeaway for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.
Today I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the poor apostles in their confusion.
First, they thought Jesus communicated very clearly to be ready for a fight. They heard him say to go out and buy swords.
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How to Plan a Mini-Retreat in 7 Simple Steps
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Listen, I was going to give you a practical step-by-step-how-to-throw-a-mini-retreat guide, but I’m getting distracted by all the cool retreat prizes that I have to share with you before I explode from the awesomeness.
So, I’m sorry, but you’re just going to have to read the fun part first and we can get down to the how-to business later.
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I’ll Be Here – Come Back When You’re Ready
#MyMassTakeaway for the 4th Sunday in Lent.
As a hungry teen in my mom’s kitchen, I would often sample the pantry.
“I don’t know what I’m hungry for.”
I’d eat a cookie, a handful of chips, a few crackers, a piece of chocolate. Nothing satisfied.
And then my mom would offer me something, “Can I make you an omelet?”
Yesss pleaaaase.
My mom makes the best omelets. Stuffed with veggie and cheese and cooked just right to perfect fluffiness and deliciousness.
The real food she offered me – nutritious, healthy, and yummy – always satisfied.
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Facing Fears: Draw Near to the Burning Bush
#MyMassTakeaway for the 3rd Sunday in Lent.
Moses reacts to the burning bush in a way I never would.
Something uncomfortable and inexplicable happened in Moses’ life, right in front of his eyes. A bush was engulfed in flames, but it didn’t burn.
I would have been out of there so fast.
No way would I have gone and taken a closer look. But Moses didn’t run away. Moses entered into the mystery.
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What do You Know About the Liturgical Year?
We play Catholic Trivia over on Instagram each month. These are the questions and answers to this month’s #4thFridayTrivia game.
What’s more familiar to us than the year?
We live it every day, every week, every month, year-in and year-out. You’d think we would know it like the back of our hand.
The liturgical year is packed full of amazing feast days and celebrations. And those feast days and celebrations are surrounded by traditions, customs, symbolism, history, debate, and meanings you may not know they had.
Let’s see how much you know about the liturgical calendar!
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Father Ben Gets Ready for Mass
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Katie Warner has been releasing so many amazing Catholic kids books, I can hardly keep up!
I’m just the biggest fan of everything Katie, does, so when she offered me a copy of Father Ben Gets Ready for Mass, I was all over it.
As soon as it came in the mail, my kids swarmed. We tore the packaging open, and sat down to read it.
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The Gospel in Which God Tells Peter to Shut it.
#MyMassTakeaway for the 2nd Sunday in Lent.
I just love St. Peter. He’s the guy to turn to when we feel like we’re getting it all wrong. Chances are, he’s been there done that.
Peter denied Jesus, rebuked Jesus, lost faith in the middle of a miracle and began to drown. Even Saint Paul had to tell Peter what’s what once in a while.
Despite all Peter’s shortcomings, though, Jesus called Peter the Rock. He built the Church on Peter, and left Peter to take care of it.
If Peter, with all his faults and shortcomings, can be the Rock on which Christ’s Church is built, then there’s hope for me to be who Christ is calling me to be, too.
Let’s take a look at what Peter’s up to, today.
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