Christina M | November 13, 2004
This week I found several Rod Stewart tapes in the two-buck bin at the local Overpriced Book and Music Store. After reading about his company’s ethical confusion, it’s hard to feel sorry for the guy if he’s declining. His lawyer thinks it’s unfair that he doesn’t get paid if he doesn’t do the job he’s […]
Christina M | November 11, 2004
… do this. This fellow is suing Liza Minelli, claiming that he had to have sex with her or be fired. Let’s assume for a moment that his claim is true. He had sex with her in order to keep a paycheck coming. Sex for money. So M’Hammed is either a liar or a harlot. […]
Christina M | November 11, 2004
Everyone remembers someone who, at maybe 5 or 6 years old, could not handle losing. “No fair, he cheated!” was their cry, which really just meant “He won, and I don’t like that.” It’s sad when a so-called adult, a person who has been empowered with the skills of literacy, halts his maturity development at […]
Christina M | October 28, 2004
I was beginning to wonder if it really would happen. At least, I wondered if this was the year. We’ve been talking about the diaconate since we got married, and in the past year our talk became more serious. We have a 7 month old baby, though, and a frequent shortage of funds, and teens […]
Christina M | September 30, 2004
Back when my daughter was two years old and I was single parenting three kids, we went to Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s house. Her family had set a delightful table, including gold-leaf decorated place cards. Each bore a name on the outside, and when unfolded displayed a sentence or two of what the writers […]
Christina M | September 16, 2004
This morning as I opened the fridge to get out breakfast, I spotted a pot of broth there, and flashed back to a meal I enjoyed a number of years ago. I was at my sister’s house, and she’d made what she referred to as “Musgo Soup.†When I asked what that was, she explained: […]
Christina M | September 1, 2004
Today I have a play date with someone I haven’t spent time with in a long time. Three months, to be specific. Myself. It’s the first day of school, and though I love my children, I don’t love the chaos of summer vacation. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy having them around, but I don’t […]
Christina M | August 6, 2004
One of the catechists in the RCIA program at my old parish used to refer to the Catholic Church having “baptized” cultural and sometimes pagan practices by integrating them into Christian faith and assigning Christian meaning to them. Certainly, it seems more than coincidental that, for instance, the feast of St. Brigid falls at the […]
Christina M | July 28, 2004
I am a cradle Catholic, and I love my faith. But when I look around, sometimes I feel like I’m in a rather small minority. Most of the “big names” in Catholic evangelization seem to be converts, with the occasional revert mixed in. People like Scott Hahn, Marcus Grodi, and James Akin talk about, educate […]
Christina M | July 26, 2004
I want to ask for prayers for a loving and giving woman named Ann Marie. She was our DRE at my parish, until her thyroid cancer worsened, refusing to respond to the normal treatments. Ann Marie is one of those dynamo women, who keeps giving even when she feels horrid; she knew at the beginning […]