Monthly Archive: March 2014

All Francis Friday

St. Thomas Aquinas Zenit publishes a translation of Francis’ latest Corriere della Sera interview in which the reporter states: “The lapse of 12 very intense months is not able to contain the great mass...

Nine Bean Rows Will I Have There

Saints Felicity and Perpetua Can you dig it?  Nope.  Permaculture Magazine swears you can create a productive no-dig garden in one year. Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave takes readers on a tour of Nifty Hoops...

Make it Count

Ash Wednesday “Make your goal massive and unreasonable so that you freak out a little,”  advises Julien Smith in this blog post for Huffington Post, in which he recommends reading a book a week...

For We are Cleansed by Prayer

St. Casimir A Childlike Encounter with God:  Writing for NLM, Peter Kwasniewski outlines a method for implementing the practice of lectio divina,otherwise known as praying with the Scriptures, during Lent and hopefully beyond. “Fr.”...

This Sense of Longing

St. Katherine Drexel Should we be trying to spread democracy around the world when we’re not even happy with it ourselves?  Why are we Americans both “bored and uneasy?”  Mark Mitchell explores “The Homeless...