This past year has been an effort to up our Catholic liturgical living, which means more solemn events AND more feasts. Win/win! This year I am making a King Cake from a mix I bought at Feastday.co (check 'em out, they have lots of great subscription boxes & food products). Last year I just went [...]
Tag: Catholicism
Catholic Culture: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. I mean she is literally on every flat surface in Mexico. While my family was in Merida on vacation last year I said I wanted to document all the Virgin of Guadalupes we saw and I was quickly humbled at that [...]
Your Guide to Catholic Holidays on Death
So Halloween is coming up as I'm sure every little kid in America is fully aware, but there are many people who hesitate to celebrate this holiday believing it to be a Satanic Devil-worshiping day (which in fact Satantists don't actually worship the Devil but that's a whole 'nother blog post!) or they feel it [...]
Hospital de la Caridad, Sevilla
This blog post could also be subtitled: when the travel books let you down royally. Or a second option: the only church I have ever been pissed to have paid to go inside. So some back story before my rant on why the Hospital de la Caridad isn't worth the 8 euro price. History The hospital/church [...]
Catholic Culture: Liturgical Living
One of my goals for this past year or so has been to increase our liturgical living in our home. This is a concept that can certainly apply to other Christian denominations but is quite particular to Catholics (& I believe Orthodox...?). Essentially there is more to faith, any faith, than the once a week [...]
