Let Your Light Shine

Mark 4:21-23
21 And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand? 22 For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

Ordinary Time

Is time ever really ordinary?  January can be such a rush of ambition.  Resolutions are made and with the best of intentions.  We have a brief space of ordinary time in the liturgical calendar between the Christmas season and Lent.  Time to take a breathe and pause.  "Selah" as it says in the Psalms.  Time to enjoy the rhythm of the seasons.  Time to be ordinary.

Cardinal Burke at Saint Frances De Sales Oratory

Slide show is here. (Link thanks to Saint Louis Catholic)

Grace

I  love this song (since well before I was Catholic.)  Grace is such a sweet thing - how wonderful it is to receive an abundant amount in each Sacrament.

First Friday

First Friday devotion today. 

20+C+M+B+11

Have you got your blessed chalk out yet?  It's Epiphany!!!!!!

Joyful