Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and many blessings to all. May everyone enjoy the season of Christmas.  The true season is the time set aside by the Roman Catholic church in the liturgical calendar that lasts for twelve days, until the Feast of the Epiphany. The time is now over for rushing and baking and shopping.  Now is the time to enjoy the true gift of Christ Our Lord. The Christ who came to be born in hearts, our homes and our lives. The Christ who is found in the Catholic church, in the Holy Eucharist.  That baby Jesus that lay in the manger that Christmas day is who we celebrate on this Christ Mass day.

Leave your trees up. Leave your decorations up, all until the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Perhaps even consider leaving your manger scene up until February 2, Candlemas, the feast of the presentation in the temple.

Enjoy the season and grow in your love of the Lord.

Merry Christmas.

Titus 2 and Welcome Back

Welcome,

I have not posted in over 2 years. I felt it was time to return and continue, even though I am not sure if anyone has read or will read this. I hope they do.

The reason I have chosen to return is because of a conversation I had recently with a young, single woman. She felt she was not a feminist and probably wasn't but it was plain that the feminist movement had influenced her, just as it did me and has all of us.

So, I decided to start blogging again as a Titus 2 woman. Not that I am a great Titus 2 woman, because I am not. Not because I have a lot of experience with raising large families or cooking or baking or even home organization but because I wish there had been a Titus 2 woman in my life when I was young.  Someone who would have encouraged me to in godly family life and homemaking. 

Here is the Titus 2 Bible verse, Douay Rheims:

3.The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: 4. That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5. To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

So hopefully I can inspire and teach to young women some of the nuggets of experience I have learned a long the bumpy road of raising my small family.