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  • The Glories of a Plain Day Redux

    It’s a plain day in a plain week, Not much happening. I hear the birds, They talk. I must get the laundry done.*   *this is a tribute to the generations of housewives who took loving care of their husbands and children without fanfare and drama. May the art of housewifery be returned to the honorable place it once held…

  • Our Lady of Fatima and St. Maximilian Kolbe

    “One of the examples that Father Stehlin gives – next to the importance of the Brown Scapular, the Rosary and the Five First Saturdays, for example – is the aspect of penance. The Blessed Mother taught the children of Fatima not to seek their own means of penance, but, rather, to accept and offer up those penances and sufferings that…