Catholic Exchange

The Feast of the Presentation

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• Friday, February 2nd, 2007
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
(from my blog ):
Today is the Feast of Candlemas … The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary … the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ….
This feast day is so full, so rich with meaning, and… Read More

Happy to see you come … happy to see you go

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• Friday, January 12th, 2007
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
 
It's ba-a-a-ck. We're now living in Ordinary Time.
Ordinary Time.
It sounds so … well, ordinary. Yet what's extraordinary about it is the way in which it shapes my life. Following the liturgical calendar — its seasons… Read More

Christmas Christians

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• Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
They're planning their descent into the churches.
At Christmas time, a lot of unfamiliar faces show up at Mass. They jostle for seats and are a little louder than the regular Mass-goers.  They've forgotten when to stand and… Read More

What Advent really looks like at our house

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• Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
 
Sometimes, Advent (and seasons like it) bring out the perfectionist in us. We want to do it all, do it right, do it for the memory books.
It doesn't always work that way, as my post from… Read More

Advent at our house

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• Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
The waiting we've been waiting for is here.
The Family ScrapbookOur Jesse Tree is on the hearth, awaiting ornaments. This is one of the most "educational" Advent activities we do. I have a small note up next to… Read More

Reaching for perfection

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• Friday, November 17th, 2006
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:
I'm surrounded by the stuff. Chocolate is everywhere I look:
A pan of brownies on the stove

In the pantry

On my mind

Therefore, it makes sense that abstaining from chocolate is my Friday penance of choice.
There… Read More

The Heart of Motherhood

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• Saturday, November 11th, 2006
• Karen Edmisten

Blog Entry:

The Heart of Motherhood: Finding Holiness in the Catholic Home, by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, is a lovely book, steeped in understanding of and respect for mothers. In the introduction, Donna writes:
"I think we can all agree that… Read More

Are Cradle Catholics and Converts Created Equal?

• Archives
• Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
• Karen Edmisten

A Long and Arduous Journey
Those words, spoken by Christians who wish to be received into the Catholic Church, were the culmination of a long and arduous journey that had included periods of atheism and agnosticism. But I'd finally arrived… Read More

Closer Than Ever

• Archives
• Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
• Karen Edmisten

Our beloved Holy Father (“Holy Daddy,” as my toddler calls him) is with the Lord. There’s no doubt in my mind. I’m certain that Karol Wojtyla, our dear Pope John Paul II, lived his purgatory on earth and was taken… Read More

Easter Every Week

• Archives
• Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
• Karen Edmisten

Long before I was a Catholic, I gave things up for Lent. Though I was loathe to admit it, there were things about the Catholic Church that appealed to me, and one of them was the idea that our tiny… Read More