On License Plates
I like looking at car plates. Especially during slow Los Angeles traffic. Do you? It’s nice to read what people put on their license...
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I like looking at car plates. Especially during slow Los Angeles traffic. Do you? It’s nice to read what people put on their license...
Have you ever calculated how much time you spend on your activities? Let’s estimate. According to Nielsen, an average person spends...
What better way to celebrate Mother Mary's birthday than to share a beautiful and awe-inspiring story. My name's Anna Maria, and I...
I heard it said that people who are good die young. Much like the saints I know. There's like St. Therese of the Child Jesus, St. Maria...
Not all mothers are created equal. The story of St. Monica is one of persevering in faith and prayers. Not only for her husband and her...
13 [a]No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. - John 15:13 This is the gist of St. Maximillian Mary...
We have a St. Dominic Church close to our home. I've gone to the adjacent Catholic school a couple of times for our sons' football games....
Do you recall the story of Martha complaining to Jesus that Mary is not helping her with household chores? Well, that' sounds exactly...
I have never heard of this saint. Until a flight to Los Angeles when a passenger asked me about him. Since then, I have done some...
For almost all my life up until about eight years ago, I thought that St. Mary Magdalene was the same woman as the penitent sinner who...
Mount Carmel is located in the Holy Land and described as a sacred area. The feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is on July 16, the day...
Paul and I have three sons. By the time the youngest Alex started Kindergarten, I knew I had my fair share of chaperoning children on...
There are various means by which we get started with our devotions to saints and holy people. The most usual way, I think, is through our...
In the eighties, I went to daily Mass at the Sacred Heart of Jesus church. I also used to attend First Friday Masses. Lately, I've been...
All these years, I thought that the father who inspired Father's Day was a widower with six children. I was partly wrong. He was a...
The feast day of St. Anthony is on June 13, and Corpus Christi is on June 16. Aside from the nearness of their feast days, is there...
Pentecost is celebrated this coming Sunday, June 5. In early 2022, I was invited by one of our church's ministries, the Catholic...
Joseph Campbell is an American author and literary professor who wrote in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, that all hero myths...
Is it easy for you to forgive? Over the years, it's been easier, but there are just hurts that cling to me like gum under the shoe....
On today's feast of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, I am posting a hero story. The story of Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco is a story of...
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