The Girl Who Was Saturday

For the most part, these Monday digests are thoughts about the homily of the day before.   However, since yesterday’s Gospel was on the ...

“Because there was no room for them at the inn.” Those words, some of the most poignant in all of Western literature, words which have ...

Not the Perfect Family At Mass Saturday night Father chanced to remark that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are referred to as “the Holy Fami...

One of the rules of good parenting seems to be to allow oneself to be interrupted.   I am not, of course, talking about permitting older...

As the liturgical year draws to a close, the gospels offer one insight after another into what to expect at the end of time. Mostly, they...

Every now and then—any parent with children will testify—the state of family affairs at Mass becomes so—familial—that very little of the...

It has been some time since I've posted a MidWeekMuse, so this might be considered … an easing back into the habit? It came to mind th...

The Tuesday, July 3 edition of NPR’s “All Things Considered” celebrated the anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae with the headline “...

Among the many time-tested ways of motivating one’s children to behave well is to tell them, when they fail to do so, that Jesus (or God, o...

"Seven QuickTakes" is hosted at "This Ain't the Lyceum." 1.      Number One Son now has not handed me weight...

"Seven Quick Takes" is hosted at "This Ain't the Lyceum." 1.      If you are one of the three people who has bee...