(Photo via Flickr: kalyan02)If I had posted Facebook statuses throughout my day yesterday, it might have sounded rather miserable. But when I look at it with a half-full approach, I realize it was actually a perfectly fine day.Bad: Our son got sick in the car on the way to school.Good: HeRead More
The feast of the Ascension of the Lord, a holy day of obligation, is May 9 but will be observed in churches throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore the weekend of May 11-12.Read More
Part 3: Living Junk-FreeThe first two of four secrets of happiness were revealed to me by a kind grandmother on an emergency trip to Dollar General. But, she had forgotten the other two. I scoured the web for the complete set of secrets, but couldn’t trace the source that hadRead More
Dr. Barbara McGraw Edmondson, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, sent the following statement to families of Msgr. Slade School in Glen Burnie earlier today.Read More
Laura Hatcher and her husband, Brian, have two children, Olivia, 10, and Simon, 7, and are parishioners at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Md. As we look ahead to Mother’s Day, I invited her to write a guest blog sharing how raising Simon, who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and hydrocephalus,Read More
Last night as the boys and I were driving home, we passed a burning pickup truck. The front was completely engulfed in flames.“Mama,” Leo said, “if that happens to our car, I won’t worry about stepping on things on the floor. I will just get out of the car.”Our 5-year-oldRead More
Pope Francis with the Swiss Guards before today's Swearing-In Ceremony at the Vatican (Vatican Radio) I have always been intrigued by the Pontifical Swiss Guards. I think their unusual uniform was what first got my attention when I was a teenager. This costume-like design from the Renaissance is said to have been created by Michelangelo. Standing guardRead More