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What We Do Now

So we have before us, this precious time. Yesterday, I learned about a tragedy involving...

May 03, 2025

Top Catholic Reality TV Show Now Not on Any Network…

I watch cooking competitions all the time, like Guy Fieri's "Tournament of Champions." (Yeah Antonia...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

If the Don Were Pope

First, he really said this: And second, syncophants nearly wet themselves tweeting what a fantastic...

April 25, 2025

Missing Our Pope

Pope Francis died Easter Monday and the world has lost a good and faithful servant...

April 14, 2025

What to Do This Holy Week

I'd decided not to listen to the news this week, in an attempt to turn...

April 07, 2025

God’s Glorious Word

If there is a way to misunderstand God, we in our freewill and predisposition to...

March 2025

March 29, 2025

The Unbearable Realness of the Cross

We live in a world that cannot bear the reality of reality. The cross itself...

March 19, 2025

Response to the Hard of the World

We live in difficult times, but in truth, we have always lived in difficult times...

March 17, 2025

To Go With the FLOW, is to Stand Against the Tide

This week, I finally got to see the animated film that won best feature for...

March 10, 2025

All in a Day

This morning, I woke and felt like somehow, I'd missed Lent even though it only...

March 08, 2025

Not Visible From Space, Too Much Empathy

With all due respect to Elon Musk's vaulted opinion, given credence by the number of...

March 03, 2025

Reflections on Dogs, MardiGras, God and Lent

I own a dog. She's cute and friendly and endlessly entertaining. What she doesn't do,...

February 2025

February 26, 2025

Through the Prism

These days, if you look at the news, there's a strong case to be made...

February 25, 2025

Jubilee Year of Hope 2025

The pope is in the hospital. It's the Jubilee Year of Hope. Given how he...

February 10, 2025

Most Romantic Year Ever Starts Today

Happy Saint Valentine's Week! Why limit ourselves to a day? Why not a lifetime? Want...

February 05, 2025

Writing My Way Back

Today I went to confession. I talked with a friend and my husband made dinner. ...

February 03, 2025

Grammys, Trump, Worries, Prayer

I tried to watch the Grammies, but they didn't pull me in, not with the...

January 2025

January 25, 2025

Be Not Afraid

Many who heard the speech given by our former and present President, felt ill at...

January 20, 2025

More Reflections on Embracing the Cross

If you follow Christ, you will suffer, but you will suffer joyfully. Not happily mind...

January 13, 2025

Making Friends with Sister Grief

Ten thousand steps, Duo Lingo, did I read, did I study, did I write? Did...

January 11, 2025

How are Your Resolutions Doing?

10) I stink at Dulingo, so don't ask me anything in spanish. 9) I am...

January 07, 2025

The Real Gulf of America

So President Elect Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America....

January 06, 2025

Top Ten Resolutions I’ve Made and Kept Poorly

Over the years, I've made resolutions. They include the usuals like losing weight, reading books,...

January 05, 2025

What We Can Give

Woodcut by Christian Rohlfs of 1910 The three kings brought gold, frankincense and myrrh. They...

January 04, 2025

Indulgences in a Jubilee Year…Reflections

2025 is a Jubilee year of hope, declared by Pope Francis. With such years, there...

January 03, 2025

The Feast of the Three Kings

We don't spend much time thinking about the three kings or three wise men that...

January 02, 2025

The Corporeal and Spiritual Requirements of Parenting

Being a parent of older children, I must relearn what I knew when they were...

January 01, 2025

January 1st, Restart on 2025

So I just came back from a ten day trek to Texas and back to...

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December 14, 2024

Twelve Days of Mourning Morning

Visiting my sister, I've found a thousand rabbit holes down memory lane as we go...

December 11, 2024

My Soul Magnifies the Lord

Whenever people ask me, "Hey Sherry, or Hey Mom, what do you want for...insert holiday...

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