You might notice that the header image is reversed. I visited a church last week with that lovely stained glass over the door in the back. I couldn't get a picture, or even actually see the image very well from the inside of the church. When I went into the (very tiny) vestibule the light [...]
There doesn't seem to be a lot of agreement on a saint for today. The vatican.va website lists Saints Quiricus and Julietta as the saints of the day, but provides no further information on them. They were a mother and child, martyrs under the Diocletian persecutions in Tarsus. Saint Lutgardis (1182-1246) was sent to a [...]
I had a lovely Easter with good food and small children and lovely relatives for about twenty-seven hours. In that time I washed several particular dishes and cooking pots three or four times because they were the thing I kept needing. I'm still doing the last of the dishes from Monday night. It was the [...]
Today is the feast of Saint Adrian of Canterbury. He was a gentle scholar who was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Saint Vitalian. He refused the honor but ended up working in Canterbury running schools and educating monks in Latin and Greek. He is said to have died around 710 A.D. I had never [...]
This is Saint Thomas the Apostle church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's part of the Diocese of Lansing and is the oldest Catholic parish in Ann Arbor. The church was built in the late 1800's but the ceiling paintings may be very recent. I love the blue arch above the tabernacle. There are rose windows [...]
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