What’s in my Backyard? Backyard Safari: What Visits Sunflowers? For the introduction to this series, see here. Sunflowers are creature magnets! Today I went on a backyard safari. I spent about half an hour watching a clump of seven sunflowers for interesting creatures. In that short amount of time, all the creatures in the pictures […]
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St. Ann and St. Joachim are two very interesting saints. We don’t really know anything about them except that they are the parents of Mary and therefore the grandparents of Jesus. I like to think about the fact that Jesus had grandparents. He really is one of us! He even has the beautiful blessing called
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July 13th is the feast day of the first American layman to be beatified. I love “Charlie”, as Carlos Manuel Rodriguez is affectionately known. And I am not alone. It seems like there is something about Charlie that just makes people love him. After he died in 1963, the hospital refused to take any payment
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It was hot that year. I remember one evening in particular. I had gone outside to sit and relax in the shade on the porch. I had an ice-cold lemonade on the table beside me and had just lowered myself into a comfortable chair. It was then that it happened. I saw him from a
Here is a Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. When I was young, I could have had a motto, “Play and Shirk.” I don’t think I knew the word shirk but it means get out of work and I did a lot of that. When I was considering who to choose
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Alphonsus was born in 1696. He gave himself fully to whatever he did despite trials and difficulties. He began practicing law at the age of 19 and, although he was considered a genius in this career, he gave it up to become a priest at the age of 30. Even though he struggled with extreme
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