Happy Holy Week! As you read this, I hope you find yourself prayerfully preparing your heart and your mind for the celebration of the Paschal Mystery that the Church celebrates in full at the end of this week. Often we refer to the last three days of this week as “The Triduum.”
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Walking provides you with intimate knowledge of your own place and facilitates interaction with your own people. It is exactly these kinds of relationships that need to be formed or healed if we are to recover a common culture and attitude of civility toward our fellow Americans.
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Denying oneself, especially in this physical way, is an essential practice of Christianity that we have largely lost. Lent begins today, and it is time for us to return to the spiritual discipline of fasting.
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The difference, though, between the birth of a child and nearly all other medical events, is that giving birth is a natural process that a woman’s body is built for. Unlike a disease, a broken bone, cancer, or a heart attack, becoming pregnant and giving birth is something every healthy woman’s body aims to achieve on a monthly basis. Entire organs and systems within her body exist to build and nurture new life. Pregnancy and childbirth aren’t maladies. Rather, these incredible experiences are the healthiest possible expression of a woman’s liveliness.
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The meal’s place in the life of a family and a community must be guarded as a sacred event.
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Look at your life. Examine your habits. Honestly assess that nifty little screentime function on your phone. Have you made the changes you want? Have you decreased the overall time you spend looking at a screen every day? If you haven’t, and you have the desire to change that, this is for you. Here are four steps to help you reduce your daily screentime.
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One of Shannon’s favorite podcasts to listen to.
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One small silver lining in the midst of this crisis is that we are now in an excellent position to learn from those who lived through such harrowing events and then to apply their hard-earned lessons to our lives. One such individual was C.S. Lewis.
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There is wisdom beyond measure in a woman learning from other women what has been passed down since time immemorial.
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