Last year for Lent I added reading the Bible every day to my activities, and after Lent ended I kept up with the Bible readings. At first I didn’t mark what chapters I read, and as I wasn’t reading them strictly in order I decided to “start over” and mark them off as I read them. Anyway, that’s to say that I am not doing a study guide and not ( Read more... )

Saving a quote - page 130 ( Read more... )

Not that anyone is interested in this - but this is also a diary, so just skip this post ( Read more... )

It's Mission Week at Our Lady of Victory this week. In addition to giving a three part lesson on Spe Salvi, Father C is also taking confession after each of the sermons ( Read more... )

A story from Taking Flight by Anthony de Mello

A Sufi saint set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. At the outskirts of the city he lay down by the road, exhausted from his journey. He had barely fallen asleep when he was brusquely awakened by an irate pilgrim. "This is the time when al believers bow their heads toward Mecca and you have your feet ( Read more... )

I fell behind in chronicling my catechism experience. We just had our last class - a party to celebrate - so I don’t think I can back up and write about my missing classes, but I wanted to write about Holy Week, at least.

Brief explanation of days, if needed… Palm Sunday is Jesus’s triumphant return when the crowds greeted him with palm fronds. ( Read more... )

For those who celebrate - Happy Easter ( Read more... )

I have fallen sooooooo far behind in journaling my catechism classes that I will never recover. But the classes continue nonetheless. We are in Lent and just a few weeks out from Easter, so things are getting very busy. I wrote a little bit about the Rite of Sending and Rite of Election in an earlier post (Days of Our Lives) and also mentioned ( Read more... )

So much is happening I haven’t had time to write much about it! This is a loooooooooooong post going back over the last eleven days. I could go back more, but ran out of time ( Read more... )

The first night of Catechism they asked if we were baptized and if so, to provide a copy of our baptismal certificate. While the Catholic Church recognizes infant baptism and baptism by sprinkling or dunking, they only recognize it if it was done in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (the Trinity) as opposed to just in the name of ( Read more... )