Is Obligation Enough?

In this weekend’s Gospel (Mk 1:40-45) Jesus tells the healed leper to say nothing about the miracle that was preformed. This seems strange at first because you would think Jesus would want everyone to know he was God incarnate, and share the Good News.

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I Have it all without Desire

“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.” – St. John of the Cross

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Dinosaur Evangelists

My two sons are now three and four years old, and if there is anything in this world that love it is dinosaurs. They eat, sleep and breath dinosaurs. If we go on family walks, they stop strangers on the street to preach the ‘Gospel of Dinosaurs.’

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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women – Book Review

I like to read. I like to read a lot.  And while I try to stay current with new books and trends, I have a real soft spot for the classics. I am always searching for the book “you must…

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Feast of St Joseph the Worker

Blessed St. Joseph, patron of all working people, obtain for me the grace to labor in a spirit of penance for the atonement of my many sins. Help me to be conscientious in my work so that I may give as full a measure as I have received.

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Stops on the Pilgrimage

Today is the Third Sunday of Easter in the Roman Catholic Church. We read one of my one of my favorite Gospels, Luke 24:13-35, also known as the story of the Road to Emmaus. The story where two disciples of Jesus, leaving Jerusalem…

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Easter Superhero

Over the last few months my 34 month old daughter has really been into pretending she is a superhero. Somewhere along the line she picked up the Golden Age Superman stance and she will say “Super Natalie is here to…

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Egg-tastic Gardening

I am always looking for projects to do with my daughter. We still have seeds that we bought for her garden, so instead of waiting for another month to plant them outside we decided to start them inside. I am sure…

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Gardening Like Toad

We many have read Frog and Toad too many times. For the last four days my daughter had been sitting on the kitchen floor reading reading our seeds stories, poems, and even drawing them pictures.

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New Garden

Our daughter always wants to help Mom and Dad. For countless reasons this makes us happy… but there are some times we don’t really need toddler help. An example of this is the family garden. Now my parents had us…

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