We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
This Sunday the Church begins her new liturgical year with the season of Advent. In the hustle and bustle of the secular Christmas season, it is an often-overlooked season. It is a time when the Church calls us as our Mother to enter into the silence and hope of waiting. Many of us live in …
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Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Apostle St. Jude (as well as St. Simon). The biographical information on St. Jude is scarce. We know that he was selected as one of the Twelve by Jesus. Tradition holds that he preached the Good News throughout the Middle East. He was martyred around 65 A.D. …
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It is now the Octave of Easter. We will celebrate Easter Sunday for eight days and the Easter season for fifty days. It is Easter, not Christmas, which are the highest, holiest, and most important days of the year. Without the Resurrection and the Paschal Mystery of Our Lord there would be no Church and …
Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. My husband and I love the Rosary, but I must confess, we are still implementing a family Rosary at night with our 4 year old daughter. It's a struggle for her to sit still for five minutes, let alone 20-25 minutes. We have gone through …
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I am focusing on bringing the liturgical calendar into our daily lives and family. It has been a goal of mine for some time, but I didn't pursue it in earnest for a variety of reasons. This week really began my focus on celebrating feasts that are important to our family, so this week we …
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I am slowly starting to incorporate the liturgical calendar into our lives. My husband and I did not grow up that way, so we are learning as we go. Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Since I work in pro-life ministry and help women in crisis pregnancy, she is very dear to …
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I am going to open up this can of worms for the second year in a row. I am having an honest struggle with Santa Claus. I was raised with my parents doing Santa Claus. I can remember thinking that I heard sleigh bells when I was five years old, waiting in anticipation for Christmas …
Today is the Feast Day of St. Nicholas. Happy Feast Day! We celebrate this feast in our family. My husband and I decided to incorporate his childhood tradition of stockings on December 6th to our own family traditions. We did stockings on Christmas morning in my family. My husband and I want to live more …
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Do you love the season of Advent as much as I do? Do you have a beautiful wreath to share? Then join us over at CatholicMom.com next Monday, December 9th, 2013 for the Advent Wreath Link-Up. Grab your camera and take a picture of your Advent wreath. If you don't have a blog send it …
Growing up in my family home, we were ready to celebrate Christmas the day after Thanksgiving, just like the rest of America. Advent was something we did at Mass on Sunday with the lighting of the Advent wreath. It was not something that we did at home. It was not something we lived. Then I …
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Swimming the Depths 