Lenten Resolutions

I’m posting these here to give myself more motivation to keep them.  I am also keeping it pretty simple this year.  Last year I made a whole bunch of resolutions and ended up not being able to keep all of them, so this year I’m trying to just make the ones I’m going to keep. [...]

Transmission Troubles

The transmission on our car has died.  Again.  We had to have it fixed just one year ago, and that was less than six months after we’d bought this car.  Our previous car also had the transmission go out, also less than six months after we’d bought it.  That one had already had its transmission [...]

Back to Ordinary Time

I had to go back to the first Ordinary Time volume in the breviary set today, and realized that I had made it all the way through the Lent/Easter volume.  That is the first time ever that I have made it through an entire volume of the breviary!  Actually, at Mass last week the priest [...]

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks

I have been thinking about this over the last few days, after our Sunday homily kind of focused on this point. Even more particularly, our priest mentioned how it is in times of stress that one’s words really reflect what is in the heart. Without time to think about what to say or how to [...]

Sing to the Lord

“My heart and my flesh, alleluia. –Rejoice in the living God, alleluia.” This was the verse from the Office of Readings yesterday, and I spent a while wondering about what it would mean for your flesh to rejoice. This morning, as I read in Psalm 144, “To you, O God, will I sing a new [...]

On the Feast of the Annunciation

I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5:45 this morning, something which we used to do, but have had a hard time doing ever since daylight savings time started (how is this saving daylight?  It’s actually wasting my day!).  Not getting up on time really wrecks the flow of the routine we’d established, [...]

Breviary experiment working out so far

I have been saying Morning Prayer every morning this year, and that is a pretty ingrained habit by now. My husband and I say it together, first thing after we drink our morning coffee. That’s one key we have found to helping make something into a habit: attach it mentally to something else that is [...]