I was writing an essay the other week – on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In the Clerk’s Tale, the Marquis Walter defies convention and decides to choose his own bride, and he asks his people to promise to respect his choice, whoever it might be, and to “worship” her.
Language is a funny thing. Words [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 27, 2009
What Does It Mean To Worship?
May 25, 2009
Which Church is the Apostolic Church?
Because of a broken modem I spent the past week without internet access – it’s amazing, and quite sad, what I have accomplished in the time usually allotted for blog reading and surfing and such.
While straightening bookshelves I ran across an old pamphlet that was given to my husband during deacon training when we were [...]
May 20, 2009
Praying with Mother Theresa
These are the prayers that Mother Teresa asks her lay co-workers to pray daily. So simple, yet so full of meaning.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, that where there is hatred I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, [...]
May 18, 2009
Mother Theresa and the Necessity of Conversion
This is a repeat from the old blog Take the Long Way Home, but the subject has been on my mind.
Every quarter my fifth grader is required to write a book report on a book that he would never choose to read himself. He’s a reluctant reader (although that’s changing a bit), and the [...]
May 17, 2009
Addendum to Regrets
Jay and I were talking this morning about my last post on regrets and how confession fits in. Confession deals with this very human dilemma of regret and how to deal with it. When we take our regrets to the confessional we leave them before God.
But what if they keep coming back to mind? Is [...]
May 14, 2009
I Regret to Inform You…
I caught up with an old college friend via Facebook the other day. We haven’t seen each other in about 9 or 10 years. We were always very different people with very different ways of looking at life, and yet got along very well together. She was telling me all that had happened in her [...]
May 13, 2009
The Didache
Sorry about not posting anything new so far this week. Apparently that’s not going to change today! I am officially through with school for the semester, and have about three weeks until summer school gets underway. I have a “to do” list that’s longer than my arm of things that I didn’t have the energy [...]
May 8, 2009
What Does It Mean To Be Blessed By God?
I didn’t expect to spend my morning in tears, I have an essay to write for goodness sake! But I was praying the Rosary, the Sorrowful Mysteries, and it hit me: Mary was “favored” by the Lord
Luke 1:28 “And coming to her, he [the Angel Gabriel] said, ‘Hail favored one! The Lord is with you’”
she [...]
May 7, 2009
A Question That Needs an Answer
I was having a discussion with someone close to me about what it means to be a Christian. They said” if you really believed in Jesus and what he said and stands for you would want to do he says and try to live your life according to him…it seems like a simple concept”.
I asked [...]
May 6, 2009
How We Can Know For Sure That James Was the (Half)Brother of Jesus, Or What I Overheard in a Coffee Shop This Morning
I have an exam tomorrow that’s going to kill me. I am trying to study, but I find myself checking email or blog stats (thank you Tim Troutman) instead. I decided that this morning I was treating myself to sleeping in late and drinking good coffee. I convinced myself that if I went to the [...]
