Ok, to be fair upfront, yesterday was an awesome day. However, a wonderful day was nearly ruined – and that is what I would like to share.
So, yesterday was the annual World Youth Day at Six Flags. It is an event where the Catholic teens of the Diocese of Dallas and the Diocese of Fort [...]
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26 Oct
A Very Long Day
28 Jun
Homily by Deacon Greg Kandra in NY
Happy 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time! (that’s a quote from my Dad who has been known to start his children’s stories with that).
Deacon Greg, who writes The Deacon’s Bench, posted his homily for this weekend and it is lovely. Please go read it.
A small preview:
Fr. Tim Vakoc. Dr. Jerri Nielsen They never starred on television, [...]
19 Mar
Ol’ Joe
Today is one of my most favorite days – the feast of St. Joseph. He is actually so great, he gets two feast days (May 1st is the other one).
Joseph is known for being silent in the Gospels. But so much is revealed by his actions and by the words spoken about him. A few [...]
20 Nov
Letting Go
The past few months have definitely been growing months for me in my faith life. A few months ago came the realization that I was forgetting to take stuff to God; instead I was taking them to my friends. My friends are wonderful people, but they shouldn’t have been number one on my advice/counsel list.
This [...]
7 Oct
Reflections
Friday afternoon I left work and headed down I-35 to Austin for my cousin’s wedding. It was a simple, relaxed wedding, which perfectly fit my cousin’s calm, laid-back demeanor. I don’t think the wedding could have been more “Aileen,” other than if everyone had been on horses. It was held in the back of a [...]
25 Aug
Three Days
This weekend was three days of darn near perfection. I spent most of the weekend with Joe and his family and we had so much fun. Ice cream, art museum, good conversations and just a good relaxing time. Plus Joe and I got to sit 4th row center at Caedmon’s Call. And Randall opened!
We got [...]
18 Aug
Gifts
One of the things we do at Toastmasters is table topics. Three topics or questions are given to three different people for improv speeches of 1-2 minutes. Even if I am not called on to answer, I can’t help but answer them in my head.
At our last meeting one of the topics/questions was to talk [...]
14 Aug
Fruits of the Spirit: Peace
I’ll admit it. Before Mon/Tues, I thought this week’s discussion on peace would be light. I thought I’d have to fill the time because honestly, how long could we talk about peace? There’s almost never any controversy over that (it would be ironic if there was, wouldn’t it?)
Then I started studying up on it. Boy [...]
12 Aug
Teen ACTS….UHHHHH!
I’ve been MIA for a little while and it is because of a little (BIG) thing called Teen ACTS. The retreat was last Wed-Sun and it was amazing. There’s so much to even process, not to mention the fact that I can’t talk about all of it (sounds familiar, eh?). Just know it was amazing [...]
1 Aug
Fruits of the Spirit: Joy
This week in WOW we tackled the second listed fruit of the spirit: joy! I think it went well. the girls consistently amaze me with their insights and this week I got the pleasure of watching their brains come to some understanding.
I did something a little different this week. Knowing how most girls love quotes, [...]
