I haven’t updated this blog much apart from posting my Catholic Weekly columns but I kind of miss the more casual documenting of the family doings and my own musings here. So this is the first of a monthly update post – then I, at least, can look back and remember what I did from…
Flannery O’Connor, and the kind of fault-finding that’s ok (and the kind that isn’t)
One winter school morning many years ago, I approached my group of friends shortly before the bell rang for the start of the day. One of them stared at me in shock. What? Have you looked in the mirror this morning? Yeah. What? Did you do your hair? Yes! Of course! You can’t have!…
A softer Lent of little penances
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…
The great Rodrigues family road trip of 2017
I started writing this from a lovely motel a couple of weeks ago. A trip which was going to be just me helping to run a retreat for women for the diocese of Armidale, turned into a longer trip, so I could attend a bishop’s ordination on Wednesday, a few hours north of the…
Marilyn Rodrigues 