Be Careful What You Ask For

The day before Ash Wednesday, Bernadette asked about fasting, and whether she could do it too.  We told her that not only was she not obliged to, but that she was really too young, and it wouldn’t be safe for her.  So she asked if she could do something else, and we ended up letting [...]

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. [...]

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

Today marks the 91st anniversary of the first appearance of Our Lady of Fatima to the shepherd children Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. This always feels like a special day for me, although it is not exactly my nameday. We of course made sure to pray a rosary this morning – this would not be a [...]

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 [...]

Divine Mercy Sunday

For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Palm Sunday

Hard to believe that it’s Palm Sunday already! I guess that means it’s only one more week until Easter. We overslept by half an hour this morning, but still made it to Mass on time, thanks to having several children who can dress themselves, and to our habit of usually showing up almost fifteen minutes [...]