Mary Follows Me Into 2009

Happy New Year!  My first blogpost of 2009.  I am finally coming out of the fatigue I seem to get the last two weeks of the year.  It is a blur of Christmas, my birthday, and then the New Year arrives.  I seem to celebrate my birthday for an entire week.  I always celebrate New [...]

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What Mary Did You Know Means to Me

This morning our offertory hymn was “Mary, Did You Know?”.   It is also the meditation song for the Joyful Mysteries on my Praying the Rosary with the Daughters of St. Paul CD.  I love this song and I enjoy hearing it any time of the year.  It is a beautiful hymn that has become a [...]

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High School Literature, “Jane Eyre”, & My First Rosary

I had the joy of being slotted into Honors’ English in High School.  I loved everything about reading and writing — not so much the studies of grammar and form — but literature, poetry, mythology and the likes.  The teacher assigned to the ninth and eleventh grade classes had a propensity for drama.  I don’t [...]

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