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Finding grace in flowers and snow and everywhere in between

February 21, 2023 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

Margaret of Cortona is remembered for her spirit of repentance and supplication.

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Filed Under: Lent, Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, grace, reconciliation, saints

Maundy Thursday’s Pairing of Service and Celebration

April 14, 2022 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

The world is heavy with sorrow right now.This is not a season that requires take much imagination to ponder Jesus’s suffering on the cross.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Lent Tagged With: Jesus Christ, Maundy Thursday, service

The Good News as Luke Understood It

October 18, 2021 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

The gospel lesson assigned for today’s Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist has one of my favorite scripture moments.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bible, coronavirus, Feast Days, St. Luke

Celebrating Lydia’s Goodwill Spirit of Curiosity

May 21, 2021 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s the pandemic talking, but the spicy chicken sandwich from Popeye’s is tears-to-the-eyes good. I tried it once and now I’ve had it…more than once.

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Filed Under: Saints, Way of Love Tagged With: baptism, coronavirus, love, saints, St. Paul, Way of Love

Celebrating the Conversion of a Man So Sure About Everything

January 25, 2021 By Ann Benton Fraser 2 Comments

I’m making another king cake for the Conversion of Saint Paul. The epiphanies will keep coming, whether by guiding star or blinding light or daily bread.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Saints Tagged With: children, Conversion of St. Paul, Epiphany, Feast Days, politics, St. Paul

Sheep Groomers, Shipt Shoppers, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

September 8, 2020 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

A scene from that quirky 1993 movie Household Saints had been on my mind, and I found myself watching well beyond the part I intended to revisit.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, parenting

Innocent, Honest Confessions

January 18, 2020 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

“Mama, will your bottom just keep getting bigger and bigger until the baby gets here?”

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, Jesus, parenting, St. Peter, young children

Celebrating James of Jerusalem and the Power of Names

October 23, 2019 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

There’s going to be a brother in our house. The two big sisters, upon learning we are expecting a boy, spent nearly five minutes in anguish before returning to delightful anticipation of Baby. 

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: art, baby, Bible, children, Family, Feast Days, Jesus, saints, siblings, St. James of Jerusalem

The Purposeful Conviction of Florence Nightingale

August 12, 2019 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

The plague hit our family vacation hard this summer. It was a punishing stomach bug that took down young and old and came back for more.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, spiritual gifts

Practicing Gratitude and Joy on the Feast of the Visitation

May 31, 2019 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

There were exactly two snowballs in my south Louisiana childhood, and they didn’t fall from the sky in Baton Rouge. They rode down from Ohio on the side of our neighbor’s station wagon, and took their shape when she scooped them and gave them to wide-eyed children who had never seen snow.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, disappointment, Elizabeth, parenting, Visitation

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