Archive for April 2015

Sometimes, especially on Monday mornings, you lose your joy. You have to get up for work again, you have aches and pains, you didn’t sleep well, you got stuck in traffic…but we’re reminded by the lives of the apostles after Jesus died and rose that we need to be “Easter People” (and not just on…

World peace. Something that a beauty queen used to throw out as a pat answer during the Miss America pageant when asked ‘what will you work for if crowned?’ while the rest of us viewers at home would snicker. Something that we still pray for in church – but feel like we’re just saying the words. Something,…

My husband and I were on our way to church for the Good Friday service. As we were stopped at a red light we saw a homeless person up ahead – a young girl, maybe in her twenties – holding a “Homeless, Hungry” cardboard sign. I didn’t notice much about her – she was dressed in a…

I got my feet washed last night at our church’s Holy Thursday mass last night and let me tell you one thing…it was very humbling. It was the first time I ever experienced it. My husband was one of the “volunteers” when he went through the RCIA program four years ago and I remember him…