Catholic Starlight He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Psalm 147:4 “Will you PLEASE come inside now, stargazer!”- was a refrain I would hear often when I was little. I used to spend hours sat in the field behind my house, looking at the stars. A born planner and a born […] Written by Caroline September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Fog “So, tell me what you understand of what I just said?” my driving instructor (who actually has the patience of a saint) asked me for the third time. “Ummmm….” I thought about it. I had heard his instruction, I knew what he had said, but my brain had ceased working; I had heard sound, but […] Written by Caroline September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic The Journey Are we there yet? The above sounds like an innocuous enough question, that is, until it is uttered by a child or even worse, multiple children! Add the following factors: being trapped in a car with said children; heat, and a 2+ hour travel time, and the question becomes a feared one! Driving to our […] Written by Caroline August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Since You’ve Been Gone! “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 This picture of my mum and my, then four-month-old son, was taken – on impulse – one Saturday afternoon in mid -November. And I almost didn’t take it! Waiting for my mum’s sisters (on a visit from Ireland) to arrive so we could go […] Written by Caroline August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Love One Another! “Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 A couple of summers ago, I met up at a local park with one of my closest friends and our mutual children. We are very blessed, in that our children get on as well as we do, and […] Written by Caroline July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Home Returning and remembering I can still remember the first time I returned to Church after a long absence. I had recently moved to a new area and I found myself, one Saturday afternoon, on what seemed like a random impulse googling my local church’s Mass times. I discovered that there was a Vigil Mass in […] Written by Caroline July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic No going back?! Responding to crisis I’m privileged to be involved in leading the Alpha Course on behalf of my parish. Back in March, with one session left of our course, we were forced to cancel our current sessions, as the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic became apparent. One week later all church services were ordered to […] Written by Caroline June 26, 2020July 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Beginnings, Blessings and Blogging! ” For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:6 Blogging beginnings On Friday, I received […] Written by Caroline June 16, 2020July 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Perfect Peace! “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” Isaiah 26:3 NOUN Unease anxiety or discontent. “public unease about defence policy” synonyms: terror · fright · fearfulness · horror · alarm · panic · agitation · trepidation · dread · consternation · dismay · distress · […] Written by Caroline June 12, 2020July 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Set a fire! Ever Ancient, Ever New Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I rushed headlong – I, misshapen. You were with me, but I was not with you. They held me back far from you, those things which would have no being, were […] Written by Caroline May 29, 2020July 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet To have this conversation with everyone and anyone makes no sense. If you cannot accept that women are equally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), or that women are called and sent to share the Gospel (as the women at the tomb were on the first Easter) then please stop reading, for this […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dispassion – Options From a practical perspective, the key to ending suffering is to experience all things directly, with dispassion, free of labels, free of the intervention of the ego-mind. The key word is “dispassion.” Why is that key? Because if we don’t view things with dispassion, with equanimity, that means that our emotions are engaged and that […] Written by Ronald Hirsch September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet To have this conversation with everyone and anyone makes no sense. If you cannot accept that women are equally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), or that women are called and sent to share the Gospel (as the women at the tomb were on the first Easter) then please stop reading, for this […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dispassion – Options From a practical perspective, the key to ending suffering is to experience all things directly, with dispassion, free of labels, free of the intervention of the ego-mind. The key word is “dispassion.” Why is that key? Because if we don’t view things with dispassion, with equanimity, that means that our emotions are engaged and that […] Written by Ronald Hirsch September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biblical Principles for Grandparenting a Child with a Disability Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, “We’re spending our children’s inheritance”? Parents committed to Scripture should change that slogan to: “Our children are our inheritance” (see Psalm 127:3 KJV). This applies equally to grandparenting. We receive grandchildren from the Lord as an inheritance, and we give them back to our family, church, and […] Written by Paul Tautges September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Amy Coney Barrett and Anti-Catholicism in America The looming nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice has renewed an ugly but persistent tradition in American politics: anti-Catholicism. Since 1517 there have been enduring and fundamental theological divides between Protestants and Catholics about tradition and Scripture, grace and works, the meaning of the Lord’s Supper, and more. Disagreement over theology […] Written by Evangelical History September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations Jesus is many things to many people. The Good Shepherd, the Great Physician, the Light of the world. The Alpha and Omega, the Lion and the Lamb, the crucified and risen Savior. If you study Luke’s Gospel, you might notice that among all these images and titles, one specific picture of Jesus rises to the […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Cathedral of the Tropics and Worshipping Through a Pandemic When my wife and I moved to Costa Rica, we began visiting the lush trails of tropical forests on our Sabbath days to listen and worship. In similar ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing people all over the world out of buildings and toward other ways of worshiping on Sunday, giving us a chance to […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The God of All Grace When we come to God’s throne, we need to remember He is indeed the God of all grace. He is the landowner who graciously gave a full day’s pay to the workers who had worked only one hour in the vineyard. He is the God who said of the sinful nation of Israel even while […] Written by Paul Tautges September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
