This year, my home parish offered everyone a little gift at Christmastime—one that we were not to keep for ourselves, and one that, this week, I’m extending to you.   In light of the call to a New Evangelization, our church set out a ton of copies of a fantastic book about a Protestant couple’s […]

Dear Ethan,   Sunday is the two-year anniversary of losing you. Two weeks later is the two-year anniversary of finding out we’d lost you.   The last couple weeks have been full of celebration around our house—first Henry’s birthday and aunts and uncles coming home, then Christmas, and last night, New Year’s Eve. Sometimes the […]

December is a busy time. We all know this. We try not to add in too many extra things, because there is more than enough implied by simply stating the name of the month. “December.” Eek.   I had vague intentions of making time for a quiet spiritual journey this Advent. I wasn’t going to […]