Catholic Blog Awards

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I must apologize! Due to recent “IRL*” activities, I have been remiss to mention this year’s Catholic Blog Awards. There is a registration to see and to vote (and to nominate… that’s what I was remiss about!) but it’s quick and painless. I had no idea there were so many Catholic blogs - I have some new reading to do. The categories are plentiful, and the candidates are many. Your humble blogmistress has been nominated for “Best Designed Catholic Blog” - I am flattered.

Both Curt and I have been struggling to get our blog postings back to days of old, where it was a daily or at most, every other day, habit. Maybe our Lenten journey this year will see us giving up coffee (again!?) and adding in more blogging. We’ll see. We still have a few days to figure that out, but it is coming up quick! Lent is my favorite time in the Liturgical Year. Walking 40 days in the desert with Jesus is a truly grace-filled opportunity for personal refinement, and each year I’ve participated in Lent, the interior changes are profound. Sometimes it even comes out in exterior changes, like more time exercising (which will be a Lenten observance for years to come, I think!) and more charitable acts.

Most importantly, my confidence in Christ (and in myself) is growing each year, and that is an amazing gift. When people don’t “get” Lent, I try to explain it but the depth of opportunity doesn’t always come through. Catholic or not, I think all Christians should experience the desert with our Lord in preparation for His death and resurrection at Easter. And it just happens that the Catholic Church has been doing this for a long time now, and the system works. Highly recommended.

Finally - Happy Valentine’s Day! May St. Valentine bless you and your loved ones today.

*IRL=In Real Life. I’m pretty sure you knew that.

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