Friends, I was recently interviewed on the Catholic Momcast with Lisa Hendey, the founder of Catholic Mom and Maria Johnson, the author of Our Lady of Charity and My Badass Book of Saints. It was such a fun conversation with laughter and tears. We talked about my book Joyful Momentum and several speaking and writing… Continue reading Recent Interview on the Catholic MomCast
Our Faith is so smart! Even the liturgical calendar is smart. There are exactly nine months until Christmas, which is why today (ah-hem ...a few days ago, actually), we mark the Annunciation of the Lord’s birth by the angel Gabriel. Today’s gospel is often associated with children’s Christmas plays, but for us today, it falls within Lent. Why?
The disciples were confused by many things that Jesus said to them, but I doubt they were confused by today’s passage. As we progress through this part of John’s Gospel, we’re getting to the “fish or cut bait” part of Jesus’s ministry. Are you with him, or not?
Most of us have committed sins that are hard enough to utter in the quiet confessional, where we at least have the option of spilling our guts with a screen hiding our faces. There’s at least a pretense of anonymity. Imagine that you are caught doing the worst thing you have ever done, and you are dragged by your arm and denounced to your community.
19 March 2021 Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Joseph has a special place in our family. Our Aunt Pat was a Sister of St. Joseph. Her given name was Mildred Patricia, after her mother, but she always went by Pat and didn’t realize that her… Continue reading To Love Like St. Joseph
18 March 2021 John 5:31-42 By Maggie Phillips I’ll be honest, I read and re-read this passage, not quite knowing what to make of it. So I looked at the footnotes, and something leapt out at me. In John 5:39, Jesus says, “You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them;… Continue reading Catholics Don’t Know the Bible. Or do we?
