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Faith

April 10, 2008: I'll shoot for something funny tomorrow
Comments: 10 | Categories: Anxiety , Faith

For the Annoying Church Meeting I am supposed to read a chapter from a book called We Worship: A Guide to the Catholic Mass. Also known as Church for Dummies Like Maggie. The chapter I read last night (in a...

February 26, 2008: Worth
Comments: 11 | Categories: Faith , Rants , This Mom thing

Some time ago Phillip sent me a link to Suze Orman's new book Women & Money, which he swears he downloaded legally from Oprah's site. (What he was doing on Oprah's site and why he thought I would read this...

February 5, 2008: Lent: grumble grumble
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith

So today is Fat Tuesday. Or Mardi Gras. Or Carnevale, as it is known in my house. We don't do much to take advantage, seeing as how Fat Tuesday always falls on a TUESDAY, but there was one year when...

November 29, 2007: This is the last one, so help me God
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

Last day, last post on this topic. EVER. Gah. So! After four (five for Phillip!) blissful years in the NDCF, we decided to be Catholic. Or, to put it another way, commit to the Catholic church and not a non-denominational...

November 24, 2007: Leaving out four bazillion details
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

Angela got married today. Is anyone as impatient as me to see the pictures? THE INTERNET IS WAITING. I intended to use the long Thanksgiving weekend to finish up Catholic Month, but I haven't felt like it. We've done a...

November 19, 2007: I'm betting I'm going to be sorry I wrote this one
Comments: 18 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

I started a "This is what I've learned in six months" post that turned into "The things I couldn't possibly have lived without" type of post which then turned into drooling over the Moby wrap and Cetaphil cream and then...

November 17, 2007: Bitter Ex Whatevers
Comments: 4 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

I spent four years in a non-denominational campus Christian fellowship and I can't remember a single time when someone accused me, told me, stated, implied or even hinted that I might not be a Christian because I was Catholic. It...

November 14, 2007: The neurotic 18-year-old meets the Secret Cabal
Comments: 5 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

I hate gloomy weather. I hate rain. I hate the cold. Most of all I hate the dark. Dark in the morning, dark in the afternoon, dark all day if it's a rainy dreary typical Northwest morning. Hate. So this...

November 13, 2007: Who CARES about the Greek?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

Phillip was already a member of the NDCF when I was a clueless freshman, but I don't remember a thing about him. And he's not around for me to ask if I should have remembered him from that year. I...

November 10, 2007: A few items of interest. To me. Not to you.
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

I just wrote a Big Ole Post about the Crazy [Catholic!] Church People and the details of the Craziness and how the Craziness infected yours truly, but then I decided it was not terribly funny and/or interesting (except to me)...

November 9, 2007: Fifteen was dreadful
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07 , When I was a kid

If I HAD to pick a moment in time when I became a Christian, accepted Jesus, turned into a goody two shoes church goer, however you want to call it- I could narrow it down to the first year my...

November 4, 2007: My Protestant Youth Grouper
Comments: 11 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

An interesting question may be: What in the world made me want to join a Christian youth group when I went to college? What was wrong with me? Couldn't I have just joined WashPIRG instead? Dutifully attended Mass at the...

November 2, 2007: Can you believe the baby napped through this whole thing?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Faith , NaBloPoMo07

The other day my dad asked me if there was ever a time I considered leaving Catholicism (he brought up the "you know, you were in that thing in college") and I said, "Funny you should ask! How about I...

September 13, 2007: My brain is so very empty
Comments: 19 | Categories: Faith

Last night at my church meeting I learned about the Pope's new letter and the Tridentine Mass. Right now Arwen is hissing, "Don't go there, Maggie, do you WANT me to bust out the red pen?" But people! This is...

April 5, 2007: Martha, Martha
Comments: 5 | Categories: Faith

The lovely Jenny Ryan has taken leave of her senses and bestowed upon me a Thinking Blogger Award. This is really very kind, but I do wonder if she has visited this website in, oh, the last three years. Hmm?...

March 19, 2007: Guinness and tofu
Comments: 3 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

So there were a lot of things I wanted to do before I leave for Michigan on Friday. (Michigan! I know! Why couldn't they get married in, say, Bermuda? Hawaii? I'd even settle for Texas at this point. Wherefore art...

March 2, 2007: The worst thing?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Faith

I have spent a lot of time thinking about all the horrible things that can happen. In the first couple of months I was on the lookout for signs of miscarriage. It seemed like practically everyone has had a miscarriage,...

February 21, 2007: Um, no, that would be Good Friday
Comments: 4 | Categories: Faith , Project Baby Cheung

This is the time of year when I start to hate my job. Okay, I don't hate my job. Really. I hated it last year, but this year is entirely different. The Perfect Day Job is rolling along and I...

February 12, 2007: The seventh year
Comments: 7 | Categories: Faith

First of all, I am hooked on Ugly Betty. I forget which of you recommended it, but now you are dead. I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR MORE TELEVISION! I saw Real Women Have Curves a few years ago when...

January 8, 2007: Messengers of God's gladness
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith

We went to the 7pm Mass last night because we were too lazy to get out of bed in the morning. Usually the half-asleep, "Let's just go to the seven" promises we make in the morning are rarely adhered to....

December 6, 2006: First week of Advent (point not included)
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith

I read most of Peggy Noonan's book about Pope John Paul II on the flight to Italy, and the rest of it on the flight home. (In between I read John Grisham's The Broker, in which the title character is...

October 2, 2006: This is how much we loathe Kim Bauer
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

This weekend we went to visit Blondie and her roommate who we'll just call Drop, because Drop Dead Gorgeous Movie Star Hair is kind of a long website nickname. Blondie and Drop are living about 3 hours away, which is...

September 9, 2006: What kind of Catholic am I?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Faith

I am waffling between my Catholic and Protestant places again and I am not sure what to do. (Oh, that is a lie. What I will do is rant neurotically on my website, like I do with everything else.) I'm...

August 15, 2006: Full of grace
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith

Six years ago today I was wandering around Paris with my junior year roommate. It was only the second week or so of our trip and we were already sick of each other. We were tired of standing in line,...

August 13, 2006: Who cares? You shouldn't. And I should go to bed already.
Comments: 4 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

We went to a wedding last night and I'm sorry to report I have no wicked mother-in-law stories to share. The daughter of one of Phillip's dad's friends had herself a fancy shmantzy wedding at a golf course, the kind...

June 13, 2006: An occasion you could not imagine
Comments: 1 | Categories: Anxiety , Faith

I've been feeling kind of Gloomy and Introspective and while this occasionally makes for juicy blog fodder, I've filed all those posts under DRAFT. It's like the poetry teacher who studied me with both eyebrows cocked and finally said, "Sometimes,...

May 26, 2006: So wise, so brilliant, so completely terrible at public speaking
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Faith

So I bet you guys are all DYING to know how it went being Experts at the pre-marriage class last night. Well, unfortunately I can't give you a transcript to prove how wise and eloquent we were, so suffice to...

March 16, 2006: Transfiguration? Some initial thoughts.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Faith , Ponder

The other night Phillip and I were in charge of the Yes, Look At Us We Are Organized Now Young Adult Lenten Bible Study. We're using a little book one of the other young adults ordered from a nice Christian...

March 9, 2006: The Obligatory Lent Post
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith

Phillip and I started going to our church before we were dating. I'd heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that St. Upper Class Urban Neighborhood had an amazing priest. At the time I was tired of...

January 17, 2006: May
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Faith , Ponder

Somewhere in this world is a little girl named May. At least, that was her name when I met her. She’s at least two years old now, maybe three. When I first held her two summers ago in a Chinese...

December 28, 2005: The angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
Comments: 1 | Categories: Anxiety , Faith

I said I was going to post pictures today, but why start breaking my habit of breaking blog promises before the new year? Anyway. I think I have posted this before: Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am,...

November 2, 2005: Communion of saints
Comments: 0 | Categories: Faith

Yesterday was All Souls' Day which meant (dum dum DUM) Holy Day of Obligation. Mass was at 7, a fact brought to my attention when the girl I sponsored in RCIA last year popped up on my instant messenger asking...

September 20, 2005: More navel gazing, courtesy of the New York Times
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith , Phillip , Ponder

I took two women's studies classes in college: Women's Studies 101 and another one that was upper level- basically the same thing with better books. The 101 class taught me about being a victim, how to get hysterically offended about...

August 19, 2005: This is on my bulletin board
Comments: 0 | Categories: Faith

God was all-complete, all-blessed in Himself, but it was His will to create a world for His glory. He is Almighty, and might have done all things Himself, but it has been His will to bring about His purposes by...

April 19, 2005: White smoke
Comments: 0 | Categories: Faith , Ponder , When I was a kid

This is about the Pope. Not the new one. Between June and August of 1997, I was stuck at home, working at the base Public Affairs office until it was time to pack up and go to college. I turned...

March 16, 2005: Sometimes it causes me to tremble
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith , Ponder

Oh Internet how I've been neglecting you. Let's blame it on my spyware-infected computer, shall we? Somewhere on this site I believe I have called the death penalty "vile", but let's amend that to "vile except in the cases of...

February 14, 2005: Hugs & Kisses
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith , Family , Rants

It's Valentine's Day and I totally forgot to bring in my tub of heart-shaped sugar cookies I made with my grandmother this weekend. I hate it when I forget things. But it may be just as well because the frosting...