by Kendra | May 7, 2020 | Can of Worms, Catholic Living, Sacraments
For some clarifications and considerations, see this follow up post, Abortion Jargon, Obedience, and Whether I Just Want to Kill All Priests: The Catholic + Coronavirus Can of Worms I suppose one never knows for sure until one is faced with the opportunity, but I like...
by Kendra | Apr 12, 2020 | Catholic Living, Easter
The thing about Easter is that it came anyway. Alleluia! Our In-Progress At Home Painted Chapel, aka how I spent my summer vacation I can’t tell you how much joy it has given me to share liturgical living traditions with you guys during this time. Virtual...
by Kendra | Apr 8, 2020 | Lent, Liturgical Year
The triduum is upon us! Let’s talk Holy Thursday. No, wait, for a Holy Thursday overview, see this post The “You Can Still Do This” Guide to All Things Holy Week Here, let’s talk about the Seven Churches Visitation. Under normal circumstances, following...
by Kendra | Apr 7, 2020 | Lent, Liturgical Year
Happy Spy Wednesday! Today we’ll be hiding thirty quarters. Here’s why: See the April Booklet for the collects and readings for Spy Wednesday and each day of the Triduum. We’ve done the quarters thing for many years now, and love it. New this year,...
by Kendra | Apr 6, 2020 | Catholic All Year Shop, Catholic Living, Easter, Liturgical Year, Weird Catholic Stuff
Easter candles, you guys. EASTER CANDLES. We must have them. And really, my family can’t imagine missing out completely on the stirringly beautiful beginning of the Easter Vigil Mass, with the fire and the candles and the Exsultet. The whole Easter Vigil is...
by Kendra | Apr 3, 2020 | Catholic All Year Compendium, Catholic All Year Shop, Easter, Lent
Palm Sunday is tomorrow you guys! I’m inadvertently VERY prepared for an at home Holy Week and Easter, but definitely mourning the prospect. The images of Palm Sunday from old picture Bibles are kinda punching me in the gut right now. The sea of humanity, the...
by Kendra | Mar 27, 2020 | Catholic Living
Many of us do not now have access to the Eucharist, “the source and summit of Christian life.” (CCC 1324) But let’s not just throw up our hands and despair! We have recourse to a Morning Offering to unite ourselves to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass...
by Kendra | Mar 25, 2020 | Catholic All Year Shop, Catholic Stuff Saturday, Easter
Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation! 👼📣 For what we’ll be doing to celebrate, see this post. tl:dr 🧇🙏 This Easter bunny seems to capture the general zeitgeist, no? Strange times these are, my friends! It’s been a very Lenty...
by Kendra | Mar 23, 2020 | Catholic Mom Book Review
Number one requested post when all of this Coronavirus stuff started going down was how to homeschool all of a sudden, so I wrote this. Second was what to do about Mass when there are no public Masses, so I wrote this. And now, third most requested is book...
by Kendra | Mar 21, 2020 | Catholic Living, Weird Catholic Stuff
I usually try to create content that is “evergreen” as they say in the blogging world, that can be useful to people for many years. I sincerely hope that this post is not useful for long and that soon churches will be open and Masses will be public again...
