I’m a music lover and there are many kinds of music I love very much, but not all kinds of music are suitable to all situations. I’m writing here of music in the liturgy. There has been a lot written from the Vatican about the importance of music that is appropriate to the dignity of the Mass and serves as prayer and worship which is our role in participating in the Mass. Sadly, the music so often in use is banal, lacking in theological depth, even heterodox, and either impossible to sing or so repetitive that it is hardly worth … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2011
What is a Lay Vocation? A vocation is the work a lay person does for God and includes everything that person does in this life. Every vocation is as unique as the person to whom that vocation belongs. Each of us has a special call, a special vocation, and it will be made up of many elements unique to us and is designed to help us become saints. A Lay person is any person who has not received Holy Orders (anyone not a deacon, priest or bishop). What are the elements that make up a vocation? Every single activity in … Continue reading
What is a Lay Person? I’m Baptized Christian, specifically a Catholic Christian, and as I am not a priest that means I am a LAY PERSON. Even monks, friars, sisters and nuns are LAY PEOPLE, unless the monk or friar is also a priest. A Lay person is any baptized Christian who has not received Holy Orders. That is pretty much every Christian out there. We are all called to be Saints. What does it mean to be a Christian and to become a saint? To be a Christian is nothing less than turning our lives around and living the … Continue reading
I want to introduce myself, I am Wubbie. I come from a fine lineage of health and temperament tested and carefully bred AKC champions and have many close relatives who have Agility, Obedience, Rally Obedience and Canine Good Citizen titles. I am proud of my relatives but also very proud that my title is even more important than all of theirs because I am: THE FAMILY DOG. Some people feel that this is a role that can be played by any dog at all but that is not so. I am skilled in silliness and also in walking on a … Continue reading
Teaching the One Room School The above is the best article on home education I have read in a very long time. Well reasoned and well written this article describes with accuracy what we, as home educators, seek to accomplish. … Continue reading
My husband shared this with me, that school was for him a misery. He is a physicist, a brilliant man, inventor, scholar, lover of books (especially science fiction) and a do-er in addition to being a sensitive observer of life. He spent time as a journeyman millwright, builder of log cabins, and later went to college and earned his basic degree in physics, and a PhD for his original work on a laser application. He told me that at age 6, learning that he was to go to school, he spent his last three days of freedom outdoors visiting each … Continue reading
There is a booklet put out by a Catholic Saint called “Passionately Loving the World” and in this is expressed the need for every Christian to mediate the love of God to a world that often forgets Him and does not know Him. How does this work? It works by our recognizing the inherent goodness in God’s creation in spite of the many flaws created by human sin. We must love the good that is there, no matter where it is to be found. Do you love your dog? There is a lot of good in the family pet but … Continue reading
Everyone has heard the phrase “Culture Shock” where a person from one region moves to a new place and the differences in the culture of the new place are difficult for that person to understand and they have to struggle to adjust. Meet “Technology Shock” where the simple machines of my childhood have been eclipsed by technology I never imagined. A year ago I dove into the fun of looking for a new sewing machine. I recalled that years before there were the two choices of sewing machine and/or serger and I toyed with the idea that owning one of … Continue reading
A plan of life includes time for every essential, or it should do so. Blogging is something I do for many reasons. To share about my journey, my midlife transitions, and moving into my personal vocation in a new way are all reasons why I chose to blog. It requires learning to use new technologies better. I’d jumped into the internet reluctantly. No, lets be honest, 20 years ago I was dragged kicking and screaming into the internet age and discovered I enjoyed Compuserve. Later, when Compuserve was bought out and began to change in ways many of us old … Continue reading
I remember my first sewing machine, it was tiny and you turned the crank to make the needle rise and fall. I recall bugging my mother for pieces of fabric so I could try to make something. I don’t recall ever having much success, and the later “sewing machine” that used a glue cartridge was not much more successful. But those early toy sewing machines started something deep inside me that no matter what I went on to do, never died out. Later, I learned more about cutting out from a pattern in a 4-H project I never managed to … Continue reading