Most of us live too hectic lives – working, cleaning, preparing meals, answering emails and a hundred other things. I have often mused, “Oh to be bored just one day!” Life is hectic! When I might finally sit down in the evening I often doze off while reading or watching TV. I might wake up …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb 25
Why should immigration reform concern me?
Often the topic of immigration brings up strong emotion in people. Some think that anyone entering the country illegally needs to be immediately sent back to their homeland, in a swift and harsh manner. Some only think that these immigrants are stealing their jobs and therefore have no place in our country. I admit, those …
Feb 22
Family Holiness
Last evening, Jim Merhaut began our Parish Mission talking about holiness. To be holy is simply to be like God. And God is Love. So holiness for a family is mainly about loving. That means it is about ordinary, earthy things like giving birth, laughing together,shedding tears, giving hugs, wiping snotty noses…They are holy things …
Feb 22
Holy Childhood Association National Week of Prayer
Did you know that prayer is the most important part of being a missionary? Well, it is! That’s why HCA sponsors a National Prayer Week every year. During this prayer week, kids in the United States remember their sisters and brothers in the Missions by saying a special HCA prayer as often as possible for …
Feb 21
To Be Tempted
It is said that certain items are “rust-proof.” Other things are billed as either “dust-proof” or “spill-proof” or “bullet-proof” or “child-proof” or “scratch-proof.” But here’s something which no human being ever has been or ever will be: “temptation-proof.” Temptations are luring. They present us with a seeming good we do not presently have but want. …
Feb 21
Saint Edward Parish Bulletins
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Feb 17
“Remember, thou art dust…”
Today is Ash Wednesday, but many people (including many Catholics) are not sure why it is that we march into church and stand in line to have someone else rub dirt on our foreheads. Why do you do it? I mean that question seriously. Why do you participate in this ancient rite of ashes on …
Feb 16
Estranged From the Church?
Estranged from the Church? Are you A cradle Catholic who has drift away from church practice as part of “growing up?” A divorced Catholic who “feels excluded from the table of Christ?” A disenchanted Catholic raised in the church, but who felt left out when some change occurred or felt ignored when you had issues …
Feb 16
Helping Little Children With Lent
As parents of young children know, Lent can seem so “heavy” in comparison to the anticipation and excitement of preparing for Christmas. What can this season of conversion and preparation “to celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed” mean for little children? For many of us growing up, Lent meant “giving up candy.” …