I am over the moon happy! After more than a decade, my sister was able to canonically establish her order!! She's the one on the lef...

  Finally got a chance to visit the cemetery to pray for All Souls, but especially those dear to us.     This year it hasn't frosted yet...

We haven't been going out much lately, but we are still occasionally running into people who are down on their luck and asking for hel...

Well, Choclo's Confirmation is postponed due to the pandemic, and who knows when it will be rescheduled.  But it will happen, and we a...

Annunciation ‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, VIc We know the scene: the room,...

Limbo By Sr. Mary Ada The ancient greyness shifted Suddenly and thinned Like mist upon the moors Before a wind. An old, old prophet l...

 We went directly from highs in the low 70s in October to our first frost and a high of 55 on the first of November! But it was a lovel...

St. Patrick's Lorica Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on m...

Eternal rest grant unto them o Lord, And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in pe...

Long time, no blog.  We've been working like crazy to put on our Regional Lay Dominican Retreat. It happened the weekend before last...

Klenda is starting at the Schuler School in a few weeks, and she wanted to do a test run of her train commute. I spent 6 years living a...

More flowers! Honestly, I love dandelions.  I never got over seeing a field of dandelions when I was 4.  I know this is supposed to b...

Sorry, I've been off Ye Olde Blog for a bit.  I've been busy both having fun and putting out fires. Which reminds me, I have a ton ...