After a morning trip to the library, we pulled up outside the house, and our sons jumped out and ran toward the front door.I started gathering the 25 books we had managed to scatter through the minivan during the quick drive home.All of a sudden I heard Leo yelling forRead More
For one week during Spring Break, 10 Calvert Hall students, including myself, are going to St. Marc, Haiti for a service immersion trip. We will be running a Spring Break camp for some young students at Les Bons Samaritains (The Good Samaritans School) and learning about the local culture asRead More
We just spent a fantastic, exhausting weekend visiting with my sister and her family out of town.We dyed a few eggs.We celebrated my niece’s sixth birthday, singing to her at least three times. We fasted on Friday, feasted on birthday cake on Saturday, and the cousins played nonstop from dawnRead More
Often times life’s biggest events are not truly understood or appreciated until we have the opportunity to look back and reflect. Holy Week is an example. During this most sacred time of our liturgical year, there is the busyness of preparation, along with the logistics of planning and rehearsals for ourRead More
It’s Easter Weekend and we have been preparing our minds and spirits since Ash Wednesday for the glorious resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We have been abstinent; we have fasted; we have done acts of charity and spent much time in prayer.We have even witnessed the retirementRead More
Every year on Good Friday, my parish, St. Joan of Arc in Aberdeen, joins its neighbor, Grace United Methodist Church for an ecumenical commemoration of Jesus’ journey from condemnation to death. The procession of the cross begins at Grace United Methodist Church with a prayer service. Then, participants gather outsideRead More
St. Joseph on Carrollton Manor in Buckeystown is breaking ground April 14 for construction of a new $4.7-million church, a project driven by expanding parish membership.Read More
Catholics from Baltimore-area parishes joined traditional-marriage supporters March 26 in Washington, D.C., for a rally and accompanying march to the U.S. Supreme Court building.Read More