Lily Maiden

that I (sadly) take a hiatus this week from blogging. A host of meetings - one each day, in fact! - and numerous preparations for my Fall sc...

My many discussions off-shooting from THE Question have exposed me to what I call an American “stereotype”… that somehow, your life is on ho...

It's the question I'm asked by everyone from the next-door neighbor, to all my aunts and uncles, to all the elderly ladies from chur...

I had hoped to have some photos for you of where I was this past weekend, but alas! The computer and the camara have made a pact against me ...

What an amazing, beautiful mystery -- our Lady's Assumption into Heaven. What prompted her Son to exult her body with this great gift? H...

24 years ago, you began a new life together... and started an adventure Through joys and sorrows, sickness and health, you have stayed toge...

Tonight, I happened to re-read this true story that I wrote back in 2003 and included in a newsletter I would send out to family and friends...

One specific verse from this past Thursday's Reading at Mass (2 Cor 9:6-10) caught me and held on: "Brothers and sisters: Whoever ...

by Elizabeth Foss is at Catholic Exchange today "On Being Ladylike". Check it out!

Today is my feast day ! And also the Feast of Saint Philomena , virgin and martyr - one of my favorites. This morning we were blessed to att...

My "five senses favorites"... To Taste: Ice-cold homemade fruit smoothie, Fresh-steamed asparagus, French bread with garlic butte...

Last evening, when my mom and dad needed their eyeglasses adjusted at Sears, I went along. Since it has been a very loooong time since I hav...

After experiencing "The Passion of the Christ" for the first time on April 15, 2004, I went home and composed a number of writings...

by John Henry Newman Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me...

No, I don't have my dates mixed up: today is the Feast of Saint John Marie Vianney , the awesome patron of parish priests. A truly amazi...

For part one, click here . Casualness and Immodesty. While they seem like separated topics, in many ways they are actually connected. They e...

How comforting is His Presence! To be able to sit, just sit, before the Body of my Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament is a gift unlike any o...

...we would have the secret to fulfillment, to peace, to happiness. "He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all thi...

If your summer has been anything like mine, it is simply flying by. Before we know it, autumn will be here, and with it, all the swing of re...

My apologies for my recent unexplained absence. I was unable to post a farewell note before my sisters and I left out of town last Tuesday t...