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Time for Sunday Snippets over at RAnn’s place where we share our (mostly) Catholic posts from the week. Won’t you come join us? I only have three posts this week: How to Have Happy Kids When Traveling Book Review: The Divine Family Continue reading Sunday Snippets: A Catholic Carnival (June 16, 2013) June 15th, 2013 | Tags: book review, carnival, catholic, catholic carnival, catholic posts, goals, happy kids, snippets, sunday, Sunday snippets | Category: Sunday Snippets | Leave a comment |  |  It’s time for another week for Sunday Snippets over at RAnn’s place. Come join us with your posts from this past week. My posts for this week are: Book Review: Navigating the Interior Life (a book about spiritual direction) The Busy
Continue reading Sunday Snippets: A Catholic Carnival (June 2, 2013) June 1st, 2013 | Tags: alternatives to boy scouts, book review, busy woman's guide, catholic, catholic carnival, goals, guide to make time for prayer, Sunday snippets, womans guide | Category: Sunday Snippets | Leave a comment | | If you haven’t already heard, the Boy Scouts of America recently changed their policy and passed “the resolution allowing ‘open and avowed homosexuality’ in the Boy Scouts.” It is very sad that they have chosen to go against their own “timeless values” and we, as parents, are forced to Continue reading 7 Quick Takes: Alternatives to Boy Scouts May 31st, 2013 | Tags: 7 qt, 7 quick takes, alternatives to boy scouts, boy scouts, boy scouts of america, catholic, catholic boy programs, columbian squires, divine mercy, fraternus, knights of divine mercy, on my honor, onmyhonor.net, the blue knights | Category: 7 Quick Takes | 20 comments | | From the Description: “…this book will serve the souls of those who are seeking to deepen their relationship with God and find their spiritual direction. Whether you are at the beginning of the process, a veteran of spiritual direction, or struggling outside of spiritual direction, this book will help Continue reading Book Review: Navigating the Interior Life, Spiritual Direction and the Journey to God May 29th, 2013 | Tags: book review, book review of navigating the interior life, catholic, catholic company, finding a spiritual director, interior life, navigating the interior life, spiritual direction, spiritual life, what is spiritual direction | Category: Book Reviews | 3 comments | | May is the month traditionally dedicated to Mary, so I thought it would be good to talk about our Catholic devotion to her. A lot of non-Catholics, and sadly some Catholics, believe that Catholics worship Mary and that is simply not true. Catholics HONOR Mary as the mother of Jesus. They DO Continue reading Theological Thursday: Why do Catholics Worship Mary? May 16th, 2013 | Tags: catholic, catholic devotion, devotion to mary, dictionary.com, Jesus, Mary, theological, ways to honor mary | Category: Theological Thursday | Leave a comment | | The more I get to know Pope Francis the more I love him! He is a man who is not afraid to pull some punches. On a forum I belong to I came across an article from the Catholic News Agency where the Holy Father takes us to task for whining. Continue reading Stop Your Whining! May 14th, 2013 | Tags: catholic, catholic news agency, complaining, news, pickled, pickled peppers, pope, pope francis, sad christians | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments | | One of my readers, Yiessa, asked me to “discuss the meaning of indulgences in the Catholic faith.” This is a good topic and a teaching of the Church that is sorely misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. What is an indulgence? According to the Catechism of the Catholic church Theological Thursday: What are Indulgences? May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: catechism of the catholic church, catholic, church, indulgences, indulgences and the catholic church, theological | Category: Church Teaching, Theological Thursday | One comment | | In honor of my son Andrew’s upcoming First Holy Communion this Saturday and having talked last week about receiving the Precious Blood, I want to focus this week’s post on Jesus’ presence in the Holy Eucharist. I will never forget watching an episode of Women of Grace on Continue reading Theological Thursday: The Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist April 25th, 2013 | Tags: catechism of catholic church, catholic, EWTN, first holy communion, Jesus, precious blood, presence of jesus, real presence, real presence of jesus, theological, women of grace | Category: Church Teaching, Theological Thursday | 3 comments | | It’s time for another week of Sunday Snippets over at RAnn’s blog. Here’s my three posts for this week: Head Trauma Drama (Andrew’s visit to the hospital.) Theological Thursday: Receiving the Precious Blood
April 20th, 2013 | Tags: catholic, catholic carnival, head trauma, head trauma drama, precious, precious blood, Sunday snippets, the precious blood, theological, weekly goals | Category: Sunday Snippets | Leave a comment | | In yesterday’s installment of “How to ‘Get Something’ Out of Mass” I said I would share some practical tips and ideas for getting the most out of the Mass. Pick a few and them give them a try for a few weeks. If they work, great keep doing them and add Continue reading How to “Get Something” Out of Mass (Practical Steps)  April 12th, 2013 | Tags: blogging, catechism, catechism of the catholic church, catholic, catholic church, church, getting to mass, mass, the sacraments, tips for getting the most out of mass | Category: How-Tos | 8 comments | | |
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