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The Coffee Catholic: Happy Mother's Day: A Giveaway!

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Faith, Coffee, Books, Family. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Happy Mother's Day: A Giveaway! I haven't blogged in quite some time, but with Mother's Day right around the corner, I feel like giving away something! A custom Swarovski pocket rosary, to be exact. Now through Saturday night, you have a chance to win one. The Rafflecopter is below, so enter away! Once the winner is chosen, we will then design the rosary. Here is an example of what I have previously designed, and what prompted this giveaway. I love the ...

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The Real Life Mom: {365}

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Friday, December 14, 2012. One year. 365 days. 525,600 minutes. That's how long it's been since my world change. 366 days ago I was blissfully ignorant. I was hopefully. I believe that my Christmas miracle would come. 366 days ago I prayed over my belly. I hoped that the stress of the last 3 months would be for nothing. I hoped that I would get to hold my baby safely in my arms. The last 365 days have been filled with more emotions then I knew were possible. PS If you are feeling in a Christmasy giving t...

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The View Up Here: Discernment, Mercy, 2 Popes

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The View Up Here. Sunday, April 27, 2014. Discernment, Mercy, 2 Popes. The journey of discerning God's will for me continues. I still feel the draw to contemplative life, but I question it at the same time. Why? Love love love Carmelite spirituality. Cloister? Not so sure. Franciscan? Love love love Franciscan spirituality. Active apostolate? Not so sure. I'm starting to understand on some level that what I desire is balance: contemplative and active apostolates in fruitful harmony. For love of my love.

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The View Up Here: Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi

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The View Up Here. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi. My, my, my how time flies. The school year has ended, all my work is done. Tomorrow I leave for two splendid weeks of discernment, living in a Carmelite monastery in San Diego, across these three beautiful feasts of the Church. Can it be true? How did I get here? Come, Holy Spirit, come! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Painting by Joseph Fanelli). Desire of the Everlasting Hills.

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The View Up Here: Life in Carmel...and returning to life "out here"

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The View Up Here. Thursday, July 17, 2014. Life in Carmel.and returning to life "out here". I started writing this while I was in Carmel for my three week live-in. Nevertheless, Carmelites do live in a cloister. They may receive visits from their family and friends, but the sisters don't go out of the monastery except for Carmelite Association meetings or other business, specific family reasons, doctors appointments, necessary banking or extra grocery shopping (groceries are delivered weekly), voting...

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The View Up Here: Discernment is not a Shell Game

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The View Up Here. Monday, August 3, 2015. Discernment is not a Shell Game. I promised in my last post that my next post (that is, this post) wouldn't be three months away. See? If this is the case, what you're feeling is the pull and tug of a God who loves you and wants you to live more deeply in God's life and peace. So you enter into discernment, and that's a good thing! Before I muck it up with more words words words, I'm going to leave you with two videos I've recently found that spoke to me clearly&...

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The Coffee Catholic: Holiday Pie Baking Hack

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Faith, Coffee, Books, Family. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Holiday Pie Baking Hack. I have come up with a few little hacks to save some time in making this delicious pie. The next tip is to buy a pre-made pie crust. Yes, your homemade one is going to taste a million times better, but I do not have the time it takes to prepare this delicious, buttery, flaky crust. So I bought a two-pack at the store, and I'll use the other one for Christmas. Pie ready to bake, in the pre-made pie crust). 1/2 granulated sug...

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The Coffee Catholic: Arcade Fire - Intervention

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Faith, Coffee, Books, Family. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Arcade Fire - Intervention. This musical element song is epic. It has a pipe organ! It reminds me of being in church. Anyway, here's a video from a performance on "Austin City Limits" in 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom ). Catholic convert, wife, mother, coffee addict, bookworm, rosary artisan, photographer, ITP patient, Sounders FC fan, new blogger. View my complete profile. Rosaries by Allison - Mini Spotlight. Arcade Fire - Intervention.

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The Coffee Catholic: April 2014

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Faith, Coffee, Books, Family. Saturday, April 19, 2014. One Year Later, It's Finished - A Conversion Story. Disclaimer before reading…it is very choppy. I started writing this right after conversion and finished it a year later! 8221; The gears in my head started turning…I had longed for tradition and reverence and I wasn’t feeling that with our Protestant church. As I had discussed with Chris the issues I was having, he agreed, of course. He was probably like, “FINALLY! That would be so cool! I had pick...