As a pet mom, the love we have for our fur or feather babies is unconditional. As well as the unconditional love they have for us. The growl, bark, meow, tweet into our lives, and mark a permanent spot for them. They become members of our family, not just a pet. My five babies, Casey, Finnigan, Hawthorne, Benny and Brooklyn, are my babies. I don’t dress them up in clothes, they wouldn’t let me if I tried, but they are my fur children. Before you say anything, I know they are animals and not children. However, never having had children,…

That is correct, this year I am not giving anything up for Lent. No giving up on coffee, sweets, junk food, nothing like that. I am, however, going to do something different for Lent this year. I am calling this my reverse Lent. This year, I am going to do something. That is correct. I am going to pray the rosary every day. I should be doing that every day of the year, but I got lax over Christmas and I thought Lent is a good time to start again. I am also going to read the bible every day.…

St. Veronica Prayer St. Veronica, pray for us to our Lord Jesus that His Holy Face may be imprinted on our hearts, so that we may always be mindful of His tortuous Passion and Death, which he endured for love of us. Dearest St. Veronica, increase our desire to gaze upon that most radiant face of our Redeemer, that face that so closely resembles the faceof His mother, Mary. May our longing for the beatific vision, of beholding God face to face, motivate us to give our lives away in service to the Lord. May we ceaselessly search for Christian…

On October 4th 2020, St. Francis of Assisi Day, I delivered my first homily for our service for my church. I will tell you I was so nervous, excited and freaking out. Why you ask? Simply put, homiletics is not my strong suit when it comes to becoming a Priest. I would like to think I am a writer, as I do love to write. However, the thoughts and words in my head don’t necessarily translate to the keyboard. Poetry, it tends to come easier. Prayers, they tend to come easier if I don’t stress over trying to make it…

There is a great deal more to me than just a pretty face. Well, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder as my Nana use to say. However at St. Veronica, we do more than just pray for people, volunteer. We also do Weddings, Funerals, Celebration of Life and of course Baptisms. I have been fortunate over the past couple of years to be able to marry so many wonderful couples. Photo by Linda Peterson     I even married a couple this year during the COVID-19 under proper conditions of course. This couple is very close…

Well on September 2, 2020, I went back to volunteering at the Seniors Residence, King Place here in Midland Ontario. It has been a very long time since I was there last. We figured it out after the service I did at 10:30 am that it has been since March. For me that is a lifetime as I really enjoy my time there. I am back every two weeks doing a service. That is fine, I can deal with that. It just feels good. I miss the Ladies and Gentlemen there. There is one bad habit that I must break.…

Well it has been a bit since I last posted. I will admit, I have been  busy with my studies with lots of reading and homework. I was never a great student and sometimes the struggle has been there. Especially last week, between the tough class and literally suffering cluster migraines all week long, not my best week. I have been reading my bible in between the Divine Office and our books for our classes. So this morning I opened it up to look for something else and I stopped at Romans 12 9-21. I read this passage and it…