Susanna lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband and children. She spends her time going to beautiful liturgies, cooking, reading, home schooling her children, and writing all about it at her blog.
The three liturgies of the Paschal Triduum are full of beautiful, theologically rich chants most of which we only get to hear once a year in the context of the liturgy. If you are like me, you never get to savor the depths of them while you are actually at...
My husband and I have planned to homeschool our children from very early in our dating relationship. We had both been sent to traditional schools, him all Catholic schools, and me public and then Catholic high school. We felt we could give our children a fuller and more Catholic education...
When I first learned of the case for canonization of Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, I was very intrigued. This couple both wanted to be religious, but met each other and got married instead. They had nine children together, lost four of them at...
“Brothers and sisters: Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been...
Marriages in great literature are usually quite tumultuous. Just look at any Shakespeare tragedy or a novel by a Bronte sister or Graham Greene and there is absolutely no one to emulate in marriage. Who wants to be like the Macbeths in their murderous ways or Mr. Rochester with a...
A lot of things change when you have your first baby, including your experience of going to church. For the most part babies are easy to soothe and you will be able to pray during Mass. Then one day your sweet, easy to soothe baby at church turns into a...
