Archive for January 2013

Cathedral Parish videos–new and beautiful

Madison’s Cathedral Parish, the parish I belong to, draws parishioners from far beyond its territory, and you can get a good glimpse of why that is in these two really excellent new short films. The first video is a welcome to the parish, full of life and interest and beauty. We get to meet some… (read more)

Revealed: the liberal master plan!

After I posted my story of having formerly been a very active political progressive, and how I came back to the Church and had to radically re-think some things and leave progressivism, some people wanted to hear more. I don’t know if this was what they were asking for, but while I as going through… (read more)

Septuagesima Sunday

In the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, the green vestments are gone already and we’ve begun a liturgical season that entirely does not exist anymore in the Ordinary Form: the “pre-Lent season”, Septuagesima Sunday, Sexegesima Sunday, and Quinquagesima Sunday. It’s on this Sunday that “Alleluia” is reposed until the Feast of the Resurrection, whereas in… (read more)

Falling off my horse: the conversion of Elizabeth D from Daily Kos Progressive to Devout Catholic

For the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul. Up until shortly after I returned to the Catholic Church in 2006, I used to be a very involved political progressive. I was truly not important nor specially influential. But in no particular order, I marched in a peace march in DC next to Cindy Sheehan… (read more)

Our future

From the WI State Journal Sunday: He remembers praying the rosary with his family as a middle-school student outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on Madison’s East Side, which provides abortions. He figures he’s been back 30 or so times, sometimes by himself, other times with friends. “I pray not only that the institution would close… (read more)

A Sinsinawa Dominican gives a homily, and an Archbishop gives them a homily

One thing I am learning is that there is enough unusual stuff the Sinsinawa Dominicans do to provide content for a whole blog. That is NOT the point of Laetificat. I do not like that stuff. And I hold out hope that not all the Sinsinawa Dominicans are like that–it would be terrible and unfair… (read more)

Events for Men in Madison

I’m a woman. But there are several great Catholic men’s events coming up in Madison, and we all benefit when men go to faithful Catholic things like these. Fortes in Fide Men’s Retreat with Fr Z and reknowned apologist Raymond de Souza Feb 22-23, 2013 Wow. What an AMAZING retreat, right at the Bishop O’Connor… (read more)