In today's General Audience, Pope Benedict taught about St. Boniface (one of my favorite saints).  The Vatican Press Office's Daily Bulletin has the Italian text and summaries in several languages.  Vatican Information Service has a press release, and Asia News has an article.  Zenit has a full t...

I was in a home this weekend that I just loved.  The decor was from the 60's, 70's and 80's.  it all brought back so many memories. The owners are really into collecting things and just about all the furniture has flowers on it as do the window treatments and wall paper borders. All of those thing...

In his words at today's midday Angelus, Pope Benedict mentioned the spiritual exercises of the past week as "a week of silence and prayer," a little bit like the Transfiguration, which is the subject of today's Gospel reading for Mass.  Jesus wanted His disciples to have a direct experience of His ...

I just came across this video about reading the entire Bible, hat tip to TitusOneNine.  I decided to do a post to go with it about reading the Bible since I became Catholic, and about my wish for a good Catholic Bible with extensive commentary and study aids. When I was a Protestant, growing up in ...

I was reading my devotion just now and it just reminded me of my photography business and how much a true blessing it has been in my life - especially meeting the wonderful new clients that come into my life and the connections that each have with other clients of mine.  It's neat! Anyway ...

"Experience shows that personal qualities and material goods are not enough to guarantee the hope which the human spirit is constantly seeking. As I wrote in the Encyclical Spe Salvi , politics, science, technology, economics and all other material resources are not of themselves sufficient to provi...

Everyone who has a camera and isn't afraid to use it and has been to Minneapolis takes this photo.  I take it about once a year. I love the Minneapolis sculpture garden.  Maybe next year I'll see if I can find a new angle on it. I wonder what it would look like if I used photo shop and made the ch...

Unemployment is up   The unemployment rate in Minnesota jumped up to 7.6% in January.  That is as high as the national average.  We usually do a but better than the rest of the country.  According to the Strib and others we lost 75,000 jobs last year and 20,700 in January.  That make sense beca...

In his words at today's midday Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the angels, as they are mentioned in today's Gospel reading for Mass (Mark 1:12-15), and elsewhere in Scripture.  In conclusion, he said, "Let us call upon them often, that they sustain us in the task of following Jesus to the po...

So it's Lent. That snuck up quickly didn't it? My kiddos have been professing their Lenten sacrifices for the last couple of days, gearing up for today-Ash Wednesday. We have declared ours, too. We are amazed at what they want to give up for 40 days. I know you aren't suppose...