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If Our Blessed Mother and the adolescent Jesus were on earth today, she definitely would have, at some point, fixed him a Coke. As chicks raised in the South, we both remember instances after injuries and illness when our mothers bandaged us up, sat us on the sofa, and handed us a Coke. Only the [...]
August 21, 2009
There’s an expression down South- maybe you’ve heard it. It goes like this: “Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while.” Well sure enough, that is exactly what has happened! In an attempt to spend some quality vacation time at the beach in conjunction with visiting America’s oldest European settlement [...]
July 24, 2009
I have been reflecting on an event that I have attended for two years in a row now- the Eucharistic Congress in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. It is a time when thousands of Catholics gather near the airport for workshops, motivational speakers, and worship. The Eucharistic Congress that I attended in 2008 was my first [...]
July 24, 2009
Genuflecting, making the sign of the cross, bowing and kneeling are automatic for life long Catholics, but these gestures can be intimidating for the convert. Now that I have been Catholic for a little over a year, I rather enjoy entering into the physical nature of worship in the Mass. It is a concrete and [...]
June 22, 2009
What is a Southern Catholic Chick you may be asking? What does it mean to be truly Southern and faithfully Catholic? Well as recent converts who were received into full communion with the Catholic Church over a year ago, those are questions that we have been pondering lately. Born and raised in the South, we both [...]
August 21, 2009
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