For the longest time I have felt the need to follow Christ, literally. I haven’t gotten there yet but I’ve been working that way for awhile. The Gospel of Luke will really put you in your place. I can imagine being in the crowd following Jesus everywhere he went. I can also imagine fantasizing about … [Read more…]
My daughter asked me the other day why I didn’t blog anymore. I told her I was probably finished with that phase of my life and I was just moving on. I told her that I still wrote all the time, I just didn’t post anything. She said she wished that I would go back … [Read more…]
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit is an enumeration of seven spiritual gifts originating with patristic authors, later elaborated by five intellectual virtues and four other groups of ethical characteristics. They are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord (wonder). Today is the feast of Pentecost. This is the day … [Read more…]
I will tell you that the first time I went to the bingo or the racetrack I was probably an infant. I will just start this off here by telling you that I come from a long line of German Catholics who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. That means that bingo, poker and horse racing were … [Read more…]
You know that part of Mass, at the very beginning when we ask God to forgive our sins – those we have done and those we have failed to do? I got to thinking about the Feast of the Epiphany and how it is a time to give gifts and I got to thinking about … [Read more…]
After any major event there is a chance to sit back and ponder all that was done right, and what was done wrong. As a Monday morning quarterback we can all pick away at the good and the bad of the St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic. I like to think of all the good that … [Read more…]
Where do I begin? There are so many things that she taught me, I don’t think I could pick just one. She taught me how to be a friend. My mother was the best friend to so many people. She seriously cared about people. And people loved her. I will never forget that when she … [Read more…]
I was born down the road from Bourbon Stockyards in Louisville, Kentucky. The house I came home to on Mellwood Avenue, is not there anymore. Now it’s a driveway. But we would drive right by Bourbon Stockyards on our way home from my grandmother’s house on Barrett Avenue. I never gave it much thought. I … [Read more…]
What’s the difference between nice and kind? Aren’t they the same? Are they? I’ve asked several people today about the difference of nice vs kind. Most are like me and don’t know of a difference. So I went to the dictionary. I looked up kind first and got this definition Okay, sounds good. So then … [Read more…]
Living in this part of Kentucky, you have to expect rituals and rites of passage. Moving here as an adult I was never indoctrinated in some of these but I see them all the time, raising my children on a farm. First, if a cow is out, the entire household has to get up, no … [Read more…]