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November 2020

November 05, 2020

I Could Not Sleep

I had hoped to talk about the election results by now, but here we...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

It Causes Me To Tremble

I woke up early, which isn't like me. Insomnia is another symptom I...

April 05, 2020

Some Holy Week Housekeeping Notes From Steel Magnificat

Hey everyone, I just wanted to update everyone on the Pezzulo family's...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

Thank You To The Heroes On Saint Joseph’s Day

On this solemnity of Saint Joseph, I want to honor the people who are doing...

March 14, 2020

Notes Ahead of a Crisis

I have a couple of short blogkeeping and Pezzulo-household-keeping notes I want to give...

April 2019

April 15, 2019

A Word on the Fire at Notre Dame

I'm supposed to say something about Notre Dame de Paris. On any other day, you...

April 02, 2019

Among Pines

There is incense in the mist. Resin fragrance stings, a seraphs' fire cleansing throat and...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Someone told me to try praying the Lord's Prayer, and pausing to take a...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

Christ is Coming to Heal the World

It has not been a good weekend. Rosie came down with a fever and the...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

Triduum and the Theology of Godzilla

I had been trying to catechize Rosie about Easter since the beginning of Lent....

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Winter Dark

This is the time of year that I don't sleep very much. It happens every...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

A Prayer and a Work of Mercy for the Friendship Room

Saint Philip's fast starts less than a week from today! Latin Catholics don't start Advent...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

I Try To Pray

The flare has been going on all week. I haven't gotten out of bed before...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Something About Natural Family Planning

Apparently I have once again missed Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, the happiest week of...

July 23, 2017

The Derelict

I was going for my walk after dark, after the heat of the day had broken....

April 2017

April 21, 2017

What Catholic Women Hear

"Things Christian Women Hear" is trending on Facebook and Twitter. That's quite a topic; I...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Praying With A Madwoman’s Heart

It seems like a long time ago, now. She was one of the pious women...

March 09, 2017

A Prayer Request For My Readers

In your charity, please join me in prayer for a friend whose son just passed...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

How Do You Ask Forgiveness?

How do you repent of your sins and ask forgiveness? Badly. Horribly. It's par for...

November 2016

November 07, 2016

Has Father Pavone Kept Mummified Human Remains For More Than A Decade?

Alert reader and commentator Patricia Larson Guilfoyle recently posted the following, on my post about Father Pavone's...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Languages of Love: A Visit To A Local Mosque

. (image via Pixabay) This is a guest post by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe. John is a...

September 12, 2016

And Why Not Every Man?

(image via Pixabay) Some days, I have no words at all. Shocking to those of...

September 11, 2016

Bless My Enemies

(image via Pixabay) My Orthodox friend whose post I shared earlier this week, just posted...

September 05, 2016

The Body Torn and Broken

We ended up at Divine Liturgy at an OCA Orthodox church last week. Never mind how...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

How Wonderful It Is To Set Aside All Earthly Cares

(Image: St Macarius the Great with Cherub, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.) So last Friday I...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Things I Learned On The Internet This Week: Last Weekend of July Round-Up

(image via Pixabay) Here we go, folks, this is my semi-regular round-up of fun information...

July 14, 2016

Things I Learned On The Internet Lately

I promise I'll go back to my long-winded meditations next time, folks, but I've got to...

July 08, 2016

Rend Your Hearts When You Hear of Violence

Everybody stop what you're doing, right now. Stop scrolling, stop typing, stop spreading conspiracy theories...

June 2016

June 11, 2016

A Gardener’s Prayer

(In loving memory of Charles Spencer) Blessed are you, Lord our God, who brings forth...

June 10, 2016

Why I’m Not Praying Against Brock Turner

I'm going to be brutally honest again, just as I was the other day. I insist...