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One of our annual activities is to sit on the porch on a warm November day, sip some sweet tea, look back over the year and compile our gratitude list. This exercise usually provides for a lot of laughs – since we find humor in so much of life! Of course topping our list are [...]
November 9, 2010
We all know what it feels like- the trepidation of giving yourself over totally to the Lord and what He might ask you to do for Him. Thankfully, Susan Monroe of Atlanta pushed through her fear of doing international mission work with handicapped children and now leads annual adult mission trips to the Dominican Republic [...]
October 31, 2010
I really shouldn’t be thinking about this today – “Reformation Day” – which is celebrated by some Protestants as the day Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the Wittenberg church door. Instead, I should be focusing on getting candy out for trick-or-treaters and preparing food for a bunch of middle schoolers who will be [...]
October 29, 2010
Here is language lifted directly from the Our Sunday Visitor website (www.osv.com) on events that have traditionally confused me and many other former and current Protestants: Halloween, Oct. 31 A traditional secular celebration dating back to pre-Christian Celtic autumn observances, customs and superstitions. Brought to the United States in the 19th century by Irish immigrants, its [...]
October 24, 2010
Some very important accessories came to town last weekend, and they had Southern Catholic Chicks in Atlanta abuzz! Last week, Holy Spirit Catholic Church hosted the relics (a pair of gloves and a scarf) of St. Gianna Beretta Molla for veneration at the weekend Masses. St. Gianna, a modern day saint, was a wife, mother [...]
October 14, 2010
Sometimes you get a second chance, a chance for a “do-over” as I like to call it in golf. Lo and behold, I got a shot at a “do-over” yesterday while waiting to go into a mid-day Mass. There I was, sitting in my car listening to a cd by Scott Hahn called “Reading Scripture from [...]
October 11, 2010
One of the reasons we love living in the South is all the friendly people that we meet! We have recently been introduced to a new “blog friend” that we thought you should meet as well. Check out the site http://southernfriedcatholicism.blogspot.com. Southern-Fried offers a Catholic view of life from a Southern perspective. They are the [...]
September 20, 2010
After watching EWTN’s coverage of Pope Benedict’s apostolic visit to Scotland and England, I’ve made a decision. One day, I’m going on a pilgrimage to Birmingham – England, that is. You know, the entire Catholic-pilgrimage-thing is starting to make a lot of sense to me, both as a convert and as a Southerner. After all, [...]
September 14, 2010
Sometimes when I first wake up in the morning, I have a thought. A friend swears that this is due to your “beta” brain waves having a chance to function when your brain is at rest. I have no idea, but I know that today I took an afternoon power nap and woke up wondering [...]
September 7, 2010
If you don’t know about Father Dwight Longenecker, his website and his blog, then you should. His recent blog post, called Christianity and Frog Boiling, articulates so much of what I have been thinking about over the past 5 years while becoming Catholic in mind and heart. A former Anglican, Fr. Longenecker’s conversion rings familiar [...]
November 22, 2010
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