Thomas Merton enters the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. 1941. I saw this on a desk calendar at the hospice where I volunteer last Thursday, Dec. 10. Earlier that day, in meeting with my spiritual director, I discussed discerning whether or...

Some of you may be wondering, “This guy calls himself a reading fool? Puh-leeaze. Who’s he kidding?” You’re right. However, I’d like to point to the title of my blog and the parentheses. Reading is within them, folks. Basically, I’m just a...

It’s Sunday morning and earlier this morning (much earlier) I listened to a homily on EWTN for a daily Mass for Saturday from Alabama. In the homily, the priest discussed snow falling there and how the moisture seeps into the ground similar to God’s...

Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today… …from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly scheduled”) posts of Midweek Review and Flashback Friday and Library Loot (which I toss in every once in...

Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book by the same name and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday (today on Sunday) as part of that. The...