Christmas is around the corner (only 121 shopping days left), and like some of you, I always try to get an early start on my Christmas shopping. So I make a list of family and friends I buy for, and try to come up with that one perfect gift for everyone. But often, like most…
There is no doubt that the world conspires against anyone trying to have a contemplative Christmas. At this most inward time of year, we are frazzled by last minute obligations and the desire to have home and hearth just right for the holidays. To experience the Virgin Birth, however, we must seek the fire within…
My facebook group, one fine day in June, had a re-post of “Question of the day” that appears on a member’s blog, which I have reprinted here: Jeannie Boudreau Richards via Miriamne the Magdala – The First Chapter in the Yeshua & Miri Novel Series Today’s Big Question: What’s YOUR Point Of View? “In 2012…
This article is going to read like it’s all about me. Please be patient. It’s not. I am a cradle Roman Catholic. My family participated, as a family, in many of the Roman Catholic devotions and rituals of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. I’m a product of 15 years of Roman Catholic formal education. 13…
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” When King Herod heard this,…
At the end of the last year and the start of the new one, I found myself reflecting on all the things I have done and haven’t done over this year. Many people take the opportunity to make New Year’s resolutions, only to find themselves breaking them before the end of January. This year I…
