My Lenten penance this year was easy to settle on. This life in the suburbs with routines of work and a clutch of young children, shows me very clearly every day, what my weaknesses are, where I can become a bit better as a person, where I can give God a bit more leeway to…
Category: Pitter Patter
Thoughts after reading Night’s Bright Darkness by Sally Read
Who else loves a good conversion story? I’ve known many, but found it a great grace to begin the year reading Sally Read’s memoir of her conversion, Night’s Bright Darkness. At the end of 2010 she was confirmed and received her first Holy Communion in the chapel of Santa Marta in Rome after a dramatic…
Want to get closer to God? Learn to do ‘nothing’ well – leeches optional
From my latest column at The Catholic Weekly: Our family spent time in the Blue Mountains, at a recreational camp with some other families. “Enjoy your holiday”, our parents said. We reminded them that taking a clutch of children for a week of sport and activities with dozens of other kids isn’t exactly the…
New Year’s resolution!
My column in last week’s Catholic Weekly. Click here for more like it. One day in the week before Christmas I decide to get back to praying Morning Prayer from the Divine Office. I go to a quiet room, pull up the Universalis website on my computer and get two verses into the invitatory psalm…
Marilyn Rodrigues 