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Cross ministry promotes family prayer time

For the past six years, St. Nicholas of Tolentine parish and school have created special moments of prayer for families around the rosary and the cross.

Not by bread alone

It’s been a few years since I considered myself the best baker in our house.

Looking for good siblings

Just as the year came to an end, we celebrated the feast of the Holy Family on Dec. 30. We remember that the church celebrates the feast right after Christmas. After celebrating Christmas, the feast of the Incarnation, when the Son of God became human, we celebrate the next Sunday that the Incarnation happened in an actual historical family.

Joyful noise

“The Little Drummer Boy” is usually a quiet song, almost a chant against a simple, steady beat. The reality of a little boy with a drum? Not so much.

Bah humbug. (Not really)

This is for all the Christmas grumps.

Gobble, gobble

Thanksgiving comes early this year, a full 10 days before Advent begins on Dec. 2 and more than a month before Christmas.

Gratitude

We’ve all felt it — that feeling of discontent when something we wanted, something we were looking forward to, doesn’t turn out like we wanted. Kids get disappointed all the time: It could be the Halloween costume that doesn’t look so great when you take it out of the package, or the iPad that is completely dead when you thought it was charging all night (note that charging cords work better when they are actually plugged in) or the gift from Santa that wasn’t the one you really wanted.

Happy Halloween

We used to have pumpkins for Halloween. Not actual carved pumpkin, though we had those too.

Snapshots

I cleaned off — and cleaned out — my desk the other week. It was time, or past time. We moved into our current office nearly five years ago, and the accumulated papers, obsolete equipment, books and magazines were enough to more than fill my wastebasket.

Couples renew vows at Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass

On Sept. 16, 489 couples celebrating 50 years of marriage joined Cardinal Cupich at the Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass at Holy Name Cathedral to renew their vows.
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