Heading back home… reluctantly

Hate to do it… but we have to. Sunday, May 27th after the 9:00 AM Mass at St. Rose de Lima Church here in Bay St. Louis, MS, we’ll strap ourselves into the Corolla for a non-stop, 23-hour, 1,314 mile drive back to Upstate NY.
The weather here has been AWESOME, the people beautiful to be [...]

On the Gulf Coast: Katrina Still Dominates

It’s just as sunny, warm and the people are just as friendly as ever, but here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath still dominates the landscape. While the FEMA trailer parks (like this one in Biloxi) still occupy far too much real estate, the rebuilding continues. We have been working on a [...]

Revisiting “Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit”

The sun will probably be blazing down on us this Saturday, May 19th, when we arrive in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for a week-long volunteer week helping to move residents of Hancock County, who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, back into their homes. We will be joining our daughter, Loretta, and her husband, [...]

Touchdown!

CONGRATULATIONS, DAN! This short post is for you, my man. You’ve been an incredible running back with record yardage…
This final run on the punt return was the best, though! You dodged all of the blocks, even the one from that BIG defensive line woman when she “called the afternoon of April 30th explaining that [...]

Codex Iuris Canonici

I bumped into an interesting looking blog the other day: Verum Serum. A note in their “About” page launched the title for today’s post: “Verum is latin for truth, as in truth serum. Why latin? Because we’re tired of the Catholic blogs hogging all the cool names.“
Tired of the Catholic blogs hogging all the [...]