angels and prayer
In honor of tomorrow’s feast of guardian angels, today I’m going to give you another one of my “this was an angel…maybe” stories. A month ago, I started thinking about how one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is…
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A little devotion to the angels
Okay, so a page from the Philangelus Family History File. I’ve mentioned before that I like to make a fuss over the angels when they have a feast day, so I make a feast (usually a lasagna) and a cake,…
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Kiddo3 and a spinner
I’m not sure what to make of this. Kiddo#3 found Ninjago during our vacation, and he’s embraced it with a fervor. We still don’t have a TV, so after vacation, the Kiddos found episodes on YouTube and have managed to…
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Stones and wine.
Last week while praying the luminous mysteries, I had one of those Moments. After his baptism, Jesus went into the desert and Satan told him to turn stone into bread. He refused. After Jesus came out of the desert, he…
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Comfort with limits
I woke in the middle of the night with a realization about humility. Humility in America gets a bum rap because we’re more used to “false humility.” You: You’re so beautiful! Beautiful Person: Oh, no, I’m terribly ugly. False humility isn’t…
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We don’t actually need a Sugar Daddy
The new priest at our parish gave an uncomfortable appendix to the homily (that is to say, he sounded uncomfortable) explaining that our parish has an operating budget deficit in excess of $15,000 and that we’d have a special collection…
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Miley and Molly
One of my online forums has been praying for a little girl named Molly, gravely ill. She passed away this morning, but I wanted to mention something from her Facebook page: Miley Cyrus just called Molly!!! I went through the…
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What I meant to do…
This Saturday I met my writing group, and although it’s a secular group, I had a weird thought about God. We’ve talked on this blog before about God as an author. (Many times over again, as I discovered while looking…
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The Pilates Zone
I’ve discovered the Pilates Zone. I don’t know if I can swing that once school lets out, but for now, I do pilates twice a week and cardio any other time. I’ve graduated from “my pilates instructor is trying to…
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Judas Iscariot, miracle worker
Have you ever thought about the fact that Judas Iscariot worked miracles? Today at Mass the priest talked about Judas, whom we’ve discussed before (at great length). I always feel bad for Judas because I don’t think he got what…
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