First and foremost, please continue in the Novena for the Unborn. Via A Catholic Life. Since this novena is not related to any specific feast in the Church, you can start it ANYTIME! Or you can just keep it going forever. And what better cause than the defenseless unborn, who cannot pray for themselves?
On to other matters which, while certainly less critically important, nonetheless occupy my mind…
Moneybags, I will get to your meme soon! That is, just as soon as I THINK of some New Year’s Resolutions to make! Actually, in the past few years I have put off making New Year’s Resolutions until my SFO Fraternity meets to conduct our own Extraction of Saints (like the Patron Saint Project but specifically Franciscan saints). At the Extraction we receive not only the name of a saint to study and even emulate during the year, but also a virtue which we should try to cultivate. So I’ve been making that my New Year’s Resolution since becoming a Franciscan.
I’m feeling pretty down about the beating the Irish took at the hands of the Buckeyes–and the referrees–yesterday. I had a little chat to this effect with our kids’ school principal, an OSU alum and former football player. Of course, he saw things differently. Our major disagreement concerned a certain FUMBLE RECOVERY FOR A TOUCHDOWN that was later (and quite wrongly, I might add, in my absolutely not-objective-in-the-least opinion) ruled an “incomplete pass.” Things weren’t pretty in the SFO Mom household last night. But today I’m over it. Really. As long as none of my kids wears anything red for a while, things should be fine.