7 Quick Takes – Passion, Spring Forward, Back to Life and Shopping at CCO

Ugh, I am always so late getting these up. I’m consistently at the bottom of the list-if I make it in at all. This week it doesn’t help that one or more of us have been sick since last thursday. Of course the ideal solution would to write pre-emptively, and have it done by Thursday, [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Lenten Mission, Love and Discipline, and a Trip to the Dentist

Mar 2 1. This week was the parish mission at my old parish, with our old beloved pastor. It was 3 nights of mass with an extended homily, but unfortunately I only made it to 2 nights because on Tuesday night I had a bad migraine. Some of the best wisdom I’m taking with me: [...]

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Lent is Here! My Plans and Ideas for the Kids

Wow, Lent kind of snuck up on me this year. I only clued in this morning when Jen posted a happy mardi gras post . So today, I’ve been brainstorming/researching a few ideas to do with my boys. Some Quick Lenten Ideas for the Kids: A Prayer Centerpiece – this idea is more for me [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Paint, A Sanctuary, Spoon Bugs and Writing My Testimony

Keeping my Quick Takes short and sweet again, so as to actually get them up in time. This week I… 1. Had my last class of my university career. – Attended the CCO Spring Banquet and received this award: 2. Went to all 3 nights of a Lenten Mission with our former parish priest (without [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Lent, Spring and the Glory of Love

Quick Takes 1. The biggest development in my faith over the last few weeks has been that I’ve come to understand that I need Jesus, or essentially, that I need saving. I could see how I needed Jesus to save me from who I used to be, but now that I was on the right [...]

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No Quick Takes

Hello to my loyal readers (haha there aren’t that many of you!) I don’t have a Friday post ready, and I’ve decided to stay off my computer tomorrow as an act of penance, especially as I haven’t stuck with my lenten sacrifice quite as well as I’d hoped (though I did better than last year!). [...]

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Lenten Mission

Mar 9-11 I don’t mean to sound all preachy, this post is just based off the notes I took during the talks. Also, some of the thoughts didn’t fit in very well but I still wanted to include them. Spiritual Dehydration is like teenage/underage drinking, it’s unhealthy. There’s a hole in our souls, and we [...]

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Escaping Distraction

Today I went to Mass at St Mike’s instead of my usual parish. It’s a bit complicated, but the main reason I went there is because Mass was 30 min earlier so there would be just enough time to squeeze in lunch at mom’s before the hockey game at 2pm. The priest there is an [...]

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This Season of Lent

For Lent last year I tried to give up complaining and it worked really well for about 2 days, and then just fell by the way-side like a New Year’s resolution. This year it was pretty clear to me I’m being called to spend less time on my computer (Jen’s internet fasts, my struggle to [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Yet Another Week in Review

I’m writing this Quick Takes post on Thursday evening. Hubby has some friends over so I said they could play games I don’t like for a bit while I came to write this. They also have the baby, so I am uninterrupted (well I was until he crawled in after me of his own accord [...]

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