Category Archives: Christian

😎🐫🎤 Merry Christmas!  Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  During Christmas and as we embark on 2026 it’s a perfect time to focus on family.  In the celebration of Christ’s birth, we get a glimpse of the importance of family.  The Holy family didn’t have a perfect life, but they did love and protectContinue reading “Wednesday, December 31, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Happy Christmas Eve!!!  As I’ve journeyed through Advent, one of the ideas I’ve found myself meditating on is the pure innocence, peace, and love that is brought forth from the infant Jesus to our world at His birth and still today.  Right next to my nativity scene,Continue reading “Wednesday, December 24, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Hi All. Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  This week I finished reading The True Meaning of Christmas by Michael Patrick Barber.  This book breaks down familiar Christmas carols, giving them new meaning, by presenting Biblical history and language of the time.  I want to share with you a portion of “Away InContinue reading “Wednesday, December 17, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Hi All. Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Prepare…Prepare!!!  Wait…What?!  It’s December!  You bet your sweet Advent it is.  It’s time to even more so prepare.  Not the shopping.  Not the food or decorations.  Make moments of peace for yourself in this busy time, to prepare your mind, heart, and spirit for theContinue reading “Wednesday, December 3, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  We are on the eve of Thanksgiving, my favorite time to gather with family.  Yes, it’s also my favorite time of year to really reflect on all that I am thankful for.  Thanksgiving morning, Brian and I like to start reflecting on our blessings by praying theContinue reading “Wednesday, November 26, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  What’s in a name?  My parents chose my names and then I got to add to that when I chose my Confirmation saint.  I was 13 years old when I chose my Confirmation saint.  I can say with 100% confidence that, when I chose my saint, IContinue reading “Wednesday, November 12, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  After Mass Friday morning, I visited with Christ for an hour in Adoration.  I caught myself a few times focusing on the Tabernacle, instead of Christ’s presence in the Monstrance.  “Come on Shell, focus.”  I thought, “How true is this.  So often we look right past Christ,Continue reading “Wednesday, November 5, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  I see bits of me in both the Pharisee and the tax collector mentioned in Sunday’s Gospel reading from Luke 18:9-14.  ‘He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple areaContinue reading “Wednesday, October 29, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Brian and I are taking part in a program call The Rescue Project.  Fr. John Riccardo, Executive Director of Acts XXIX hosts this video series, which focuses on four aspects, Created, Captured, Rescued, and Response.  We’ve made it through the Created and Captured portions and are workingContinue reading “Wednesday, October 22, 2025”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Sunday’s Gospel was Luke 17:11-19, Christ’s encounter with healing 10 lepers.  From a distance, the 10 unclean, in a loud voice asked Christ to have pity on them, to heal them.  He didn’t say, “Let me think about that.”  Or, “Why should I have pity on you?” Continue reading “Wednesday, October 15, 2025”