I am always surprised by what my children remember from their childhood. They don’t usually focus on the really big things (to my mind), like the tree branch falling through the ceiling or the many hurricanes we lived through. Instead, they remember the listening game we played together, the funny music from “Late Last Night”
Everyone always looked forward to a visit to or from my late mother, and a big reason is that she almost always made cinnamon rolls for the occasion. I didn’t get her recipe while she was alive, because cinnamon rolls were her thing; I didn’t want to compete with that. But now that she’s been
“The Eucharist is our living Memorial. In the Eucharist, as the Council recalls, ‘is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch and the living bread which gives life to men through his flesh—that flesh which is given life and gives life through the Holy Spirit. Thus men are invited
“Do not look forward to the trials and crosses of this life with fear. Rather, look to them with full confidence that, as they arise, God, to whom you belong, will deliver you from them. He has guided and guarded you this far in life. Do you but hold fast to his hand, and he
I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God (Ps 40: 2, 4) What a tender image of our God the Psalmist offers today! God, like a mother consoling her child, stoops toward us,
Your children might think that Macaroni & Cheese only comes out of a box, but the homestyle version is a completely different experience. You might want to name it something else when you serve it to the family, so that your kiddos aren’t expecting a meal that tastes like the boxed version! (This uses a