Last summer a friend challenged my Bible study group to read “The Hole in our Gospel” by Richard Stearns, president of World Vision. After reading the brief summary posted on the back of the book, “What does God expect of us? Is our faith about just going to Church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most [...]
July 27, 2010
1. I wish more people knew about Sirius XM station 117, the Catholic Channel, and especially the show called Word to Life. I happened upon it on Sunday (a replay) where several Dominican priests were discussing the universal readings for Sunday’s mass. (have I mentioned how much I like the idea of universal readings?). The [...]
July 17, 2010
In the northeast area of metropolitan Atlanta, Catholic teenagers are encountering Christ, the Word made flesh, and giving new meaning to the evangelical phrase ” praise and worship.” A weekend conference for teens called Steubenville Atlanta, made possible by Franciscan Youth Outreach and Life Teen national Catholic youth ministry, is filled with opportunities to hear [...]
July 6, 2010
I walked to mass this morning, and I don’t live “right around the block” from my parish church. Before anyone is too impressed, let me say that it was a kind of self-imposed penance after a lazy weekend of over-indulgence and indiscriminate eating. My thought was that a walk to church would do me some [...]
June 15, 2010
The Chicks, our chickadees (kids) and the two roosters (husbands) are back from a fabulous road trip to New Orleans, and what a trip it was! Although we now are tweeting, we thought we’d fill you in on the timeline of major events that took place along the way….. Sunday, June 6, 9:00 am: excitement building [...]
June 2, 2010
Friend of the Chicks (FOC) Kim Schulman recently wrote a fabulous article on Eucharistic Adoration, and what better time to post her thoughts than the week culminating in the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). Kim, a “cradle” Southern Catholic Chick, is a parishoner at Holy Spirit Catholic Church [...]
May 25, 2010
10 days from today the Archdiocese of Atlanta will host its annual Eucharistic Congress, a spectacular gathering of over 30,000 Catholics that includes a procession with the Blessed Sacrament, internationally-known speakers, confession opportunities, a Catholic marketplace, and a concluding mass that causes you to realize just what the Church means by calling herself The Universal [...]
May 16, 2010
The month of May will always be the time that we reflect on our reception into the Church, and what a blessing our reception has been! From the relief of our first general confession to the on-going graces that the sacramental Catholic life provides, Chick A and I keep pinching ourselves. Will we ever stop [...]
April 20, 2010
Amidst sports tournaments, end of the year recitals, school exams, vacation planning, business trips and everything else that keeps us so busy at this time of year, it might be worth it to take time out – time out to listen to stories of conversion and evangelization that remind us of the bigger world of [...]
April 12, 2010
According to our kids (both Chicks A’s and B’s), it only takes two years for a tradition to develop. Their rule in tradition setting goes something like this – you do something one year and it is just a fun event, but if you continue it the next, it becomes tradition. So, this year for [...]
July 29, 2010
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