O ne of the images of Mary is that of a window.   One does not look at a window, one looks though it at something else.   Mary is a wi...

T here are a number of good ways to pray the rosary.   By that I mean ways of contemplating while you pray it.   As long as one finds a ...

E eek! From this point Mrs. Fenner gets into wedding etiquette.   I just can’t do it.   It would be like facing another presid...

T here is perhaps no topic so personal as naming your child.   Everybody has an opinion – even the Church.   Mrs. Fenner has much to say th...

There are a few other features that you might want to touch upon. These are not symbols so much but they would be very helpful for people t...

W hy do we talk in church? I find it interesting that when we have an event such as a funeral or wedding and many Protestants are present, ...

T hus far you have collected all readily available material. Now some further research should be done. Let us start with the windows. You...

O n my couple days away from the parish I happened to be walking along a great body of water and hearing a couple talking as I passed them. ...

R ecently somebody donated a box of religious items to the parish. Most of it was things used at Mass. One thing in the box, however, was ...

I am hard pressed to understand the logic of why the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ is celebrated when it is. There may be a very g...

There is a new ministry beginning at St. Sebastian. It involves people praying for those who are dying. They asked me to come up with some i...

W e are days away from Lenten fasts and the Catholic maxim, “When Catholics feast they really feast and when they fast they cheat.” The fact...

T here was a time that I found litanies of any kind painfull y BOARING. The mere thought of a litany coming up was enough to send me into de...

I t seems that people crave ritual – even non-Catholic s. Witness in recent years the explosion (it seems to me anyway) of people setting up...

W ho would have thought a better filing system would make life so much better? I’ve actually cleaned most of the stuff off of my desk simply...

I could swear that I’ve done a post on indulgences before. So sure was I that when someone asked to have a post on them I thought I even r...

S o . . . . . . novenas. So terribly misunderstood and often maligned Catholic practice. At its core a novena is a prayer said over nine day...

D evotions are notoriously misunderstood, especially those that come with promises. “Do this and your prayers will be answered.” Or “Do this...

L et’s go in a different direction for a spell – I tire of crosses. Perhaps we will come back some day. Let’s do devotions for a little whil...

T here was a fight in a local sacristy recently. “Stop wishing people a Merry Christmas,” one priest said, “It’s advent!” The other priest s...