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Founded locally, Christian Family Movement celebrates 75 years

For 75 years, Catholic families in the Archdiocese of Chicago have been gathering to build the bonds of friendship and community, to deepen their faith and to make the world a better place as part of the Christian Family Movement.

Make room for something new

I spent a good chunk of an afternoon recently replacing the flapper and fill valve on the toilet in our bathroom.

Wait for it

I can’t believe I’m feeling nostalgic for TV. I mean the TV of the past, when shows aired on a schedule. A schedule that you could look up each day in a newspaper, or in the little booklet that came in the Sunday paper, or, if you didn’t read a newspaper or just wanted a lot of information about television, the TV Guide, a separate weekly magazine.

On fire with hope

What are your best Advent memories? You’ve got some, right? Maybe it was that time your family lit the candles on the Advent wreath at Mass. Or the time you put up a Jesse tree. No, not a Christmas tree. Not during Advent.

There and back again

I think it’s time for me to reread “The Lord of the Rings.” Colder weather and darker days always seem to fit with Tolkien, and the books take me back to a simpler time, when my brother and I would try to one-up each other with Middle Earth lore (read: trivia) in the back seat.

Doctor who?

When I asked my mother how one of her friends was doing recently, she said the friend was “doctoring.”

Don’t go there

I don’t watch many horror movies. There are enough real things that scare me, thank you very much. So when my husband and kids start talking about the annual late-night screening of “Halloween” in our living room, I take myself to bed with a cup of herbal tea and a cozy mystery.

Wait ’til …

I started this baseball season in Arizona, sitting on a grassy hill in bright sunshine when everything was possible.

Perchance to dream

Sleep gets a bad rap. People who sleep a lot are seen as lazy, not on the ball, not willing or able to work hard. Even in the Gospels, we get the sleeping bridesmaids not ready for the groom’s arrival, and then the sleeping disciples in the garden of Gethsemane.

Remember, remember

What’s your favorite memory aid? Do you have a paper calendar on the kitchen wall, maybe one from your parish with a funeral home ad on the bottom?
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