Life of a Catholic Librarian

Books still available for pre-order ! Well, happy feast of the Assumption, everybody! I'm going to be honest and admit that I was dr...

My latest piece over at Catholic Mom is up , and it got me to thinking! Novenas. I like to pray one per month, and I was slacking on Ju...

Happy Thursday everyone, and I hope that you are well. :) I absolutely love the feast days during Advent, and a fairly new one to my radar...

Morning everyone! Hopefully my greeting depicts "chipper!" because I am indeed in a very good mood. I had an excellent and jam-pac...

Happy Monday everyone! I had a jam-packed family weekend, and a beautiful Mass yesterday, and I hope you did too. We had Henry's birth...

Morning everyone, and happy Monday. :) I'm not really feeling very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but that's just the way things go s...

There's my new rosary, in action. *heart* I've been praying with it both morning and evening as I embark on the 54 day rosary nove...

I generally like to tie the theme of these liturgical day posts around the readings, but that would assume that I actually *heard* the rea...

Today is a big feast day, y'all. :0 St. Kateri Tekakwitha , the "Lily of the Mohawks," patron of the environment, first Nati...

Happy Monday everyone! I'm back at work after a perfectly lovely Pentecost Sunday. It was an overcast day, one with a cool summer bree...

Hello all! I'm very glad to be back and blogging with you. It's kind of rainy and dreary here today, but Easter weekend was sublim...

I have always longed for a simple and lovely name. You know. Jane. Anne. Mary. Something like that. Something Catholic. :) Instead, I was ...

Hello all! Tomorrow is the feast of St. Nicholas , and so I thought I'd commandeer the opportunity to talk about some new things I...

Happy feast of St. Dominic everybody! You know, this blog has always been special to me, but lately it has become even more so (what does...

So, a couple of interesting Catholic tidbits to share today. The first is that my new experiment with Magnificat magazine, after my first fu...

Yes, I live in an area that did not transfer this feast to the following Sunday, which I didn't realize was so unusual. I'm headed t...

This is another interesting factoid courtesy of my Lenten Liturgy of the Hours foray. I've noticed this feast on the church calendar in ...

This feast has held a special place in my heart since I got married 8 years ago. In that year, our wedding Mass was the day before the Feast...

November is my favorite Catholic month of the year. It's the month that marks my adult "reversion" back to the faith , it cont...

Tag teaming onto yesterday's beautiful feast of the Immaculate Conception, I thought I'd mention a giveaway over at one of my favor...