Response: I Will See God in the World Around Me — Cheryl Prayer After Communion Look with kindness upon your people, O Lord, and grant, we pray, that those you were pleased to renew by eternal mysteries may attain in their flesh the incorruptible glory of the resurrection. Through Christ our Lord. I encountered that […]

The Call: Apple Slices — Jessica I was at the zoo today when I got Cheryl’s tweet that my original call was a duplicate. Since it was Memorial Day, I thought red would be an easy call — grab a shot of a flag and call it a day. Well, almost. I couldn’t find a […]

The Call: No Room at the Inn — Jessica Seating at Mass tonight is limited to 1700. 1700! That’s a big church and that’s a lot of people. And what happens when the limit is reached? Are people turned away? Response: Staying Home from Church — Cheryl On Christmas? Yes, the girls (Bridget, Stella and […]

The Call: Book Learning — Jessica It is one of the paradoxes of life that the more you read and learn the more you realize how little you know. Which, in my case, prompts me to order more books from Amazon. Response: Beauty in Death — Cheryl Equating death with beauty seems paradoxical, but in […]

The Call: St. Francis of Assisi — Cheryl Today, in the Catholic Church, we celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, who wrote: We may know with certainty that nothing belongs to us except our vices and sins. We must rejoice, instead, when we fall into various trials and, in this world, suffer every […]

The Call: Fading Beauty — Jessica Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Frédéric Chopin Response: Someone to Watch Over Her — Cheryl O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when […]