The World
Attorney General Update
This week, the Senate confirmed President Trump’s pick for the 88th Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche. He has been acting in the role temporarily since the dismissal of Pam Bondi in April of this year. Click here to see an interesting look at how this role began, and a chance to see portraits of all of our AGs throughout history!
Cardinal Sarah Minced no Words in his Address to EU leaders
Recounting his 2015 remarks about Islamism and gender ideology during the Synod on the Family, Cardinal Sarah said “I do not retract today a single word,” reiterating “that gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism represent, each in its own way, two ‘apocalyptic beasts’, threatening to destroy not only the family, but man himself, image of God.”
Despite the obvious differences between the two movements, both “share the pretension of rewriting man according to their own liking — one in the name of an alleged progress, the other in the name of an alleged return to an original purity — denying in every case that religious freedom and that dignity of the person which I have placed at the centre of this Lectio,” Cardinal Sarah said.
The Church
This article was really helpful for me in defining why the worship debates between Protestants and Catholics largely go nowhere.
We do not have a clear baseline of what worship IS. Here’s a little snippet I found particularly helpful:
We might say that preaching is talking about God, praying is talking to God, and worship is giving God what is his due (sacrifice, divine honor, etc.).
I asked you about your favorite Catholic Preschool curriculums,
and these were your top recommendations!
A Peek at Life
Can we talk about prayer for a minute? Wait, don’t check out ;)
For YEARS I’ve dismissed prayer. I know that sounds wild as a cradle Catholic, but I genuinely just thought saying the rosary in the car, and showing up for Mass was plenty. Right before Lent this year, I discovered mental prayer (← WATCH THIS.) I’ve committed to getting up every morning, and showing up, and trying.
Dan Burke and his website (completely free) have been invaluable in getting me started. And by the way, I am truly a baby in this realm, so please do not perceive this as being easy for me.
My dear friend Elyse generously sent me the book Divine Intimacy pictured above.
It has changed the game.
It has a meditation for every day of the year, and you can find the schedule aligning with the liturgical year here. Each day has a colloquy at the end that literally gives you the words to kick off your mental prayer. If you’re a beginner like me, it might be just the tool you need to help you stay consistent. (This is an affiliate link.)
The other book pictured is my other daily go to, the Manual of Prayers for the Laity.
I know many of you got it on sale last month, so I made a post to refer to here with the way I use it on a daily basis!
I recently added a page on here for thrifted finds, and posted a fun little book haul from this week!
Here’s a link ICYMI.
Just sitting out here watching airplanes
Any 2000’s country fans recognize that reference? ;) I’m always looking for free things to do with my kiddos, and thanks to a FB group, someone shared the idea of going to your local small airport and watching the planes take off and land. We took lunch and my kids absolutely LOVED it.
Finally, I started a fun little “Welly Wall” project this week, with this Pinterest photo as my inspiration:
They’re for sale online for upwards of $50, and I THINK I can make one for a lot less than that. I’ll share an update next week on progress and links to what I used in case you also CANNOT TAKE ONE MORE WET MUDDY BOOT in your house ;)
