Dear Friends of the Chicks: While sippin’ some sweet tea on the front porch, we were reflecting on all the wonderful people that God has brought into our lives during our journey into the Church and since our confirmation. We are grateful for the acquaintances and friends that have encouraged us in our [...]
November 3, 2009
The Reliquary of Saint Mary Magdalene is currently on tour in the Southeast. In other words, the container which holds the relic of a piece of Mary Magdalene’s tibia (leg bone) is on a journey through many parishes in our region until late November. Discovering this has intensified my thought process about Catholic body parts. [...]
October 19, 2009
I’m not much of a drinker. Never have been. It’s not that I am opposed to drinking- I just really never have liked the taste of alcohol or the way it makes me feel the next day. Eating, however, is an entirely different matter. I grew up loving to eat, and I was hungry a [...]
October 5, 2009
I keep forgetting that as a Catholic Christian, I now am a member of a parish, which is part of a diocese, which is part of a larger territory, which is part of a continent, which is part of the universal (catholic) Church. So, when it was announced that Luis Rafael Zarama would be ordained [...]
September 28, 2009
As a Protestant, I had some vague idea about the rosary, but quite honestly I thought it was a sequence of rote prayers directed to Mary. Somehow I completely missed the fact that the recitation of prayers was to be combined with meditations on the life of Christ. Nor did I understand that the Lord’s [...]
September 19, 2009
The Chicks are back from a major road trip- we were attending the 14th Annual Partnership Dinner and Dance benefiting InsideCatholic.com in Washington, D.C. Somehow we landed an invitation to this swanky event, and with the blessings of our husbands we took off for a 36 hour adventure. If we twittered- which we don’t – [...]
August 31, 2009
Now that my kids are older and can swim on their on, my time in the pool is waning. However, I am still in the parenting stage where I have to be at the pool. This summer was particularly pleasing as I could find a chair in a quiet corner, soak in the sun and [...]
August 21, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
November 19, 2009
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