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Night Prayer Vignette
It is 8:14 pm. The room is darkened- but hints of light peek under the bedroom doorway onto the green rug. A bit of Chicago light pollution sneaks through the window blinds. The fan blades whir overhead, and the noise machine muffles some of the traffic sounds. My four year old daughter’s body is curled…
(Some of)! The! Links!
I’ve written for a variety of publications over the years, and I thought it was time for a catch-all/ catch up post! Many earlier essays and pieces have gradually been lost to website changes and link breaks (and the infamous and tragic Ramen on the Keyboard Episode of May 2015), but that’s what I get…
What’s Going on with President Biden, the Bishops, and the Eucharist?
Back in November, I wrote a piece for FemCatholic on all of the talk swirling around Eucharistic coherence. Here’s a snippet, and you can find the rest here. A few weeks ago, you may have seen that President Biden met with Pope Francis in Rome. “We just talked about the fact he was happy that…
One Advent Vignette, Justified
Because 2020 is … well, 2020, and our dear girl is a champion of sleep resistance, I’ve been desperately wanting to write and yet completely unable to come up with something long-ish that’s coherent. I think in the last 11 months I slept more than four hours in a row …. three times? Sorry, universe…
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Welcome! I am so glad that you are here.
I’m Hope – a wife and mom, a perpetual student of theology and a teacher- turned – writer.
I began “Our Sacrifice of Praise” to share Catholic thought on living lives of faith in the midst of this beautiful and bonkers world. You’ll find my musings here spanning vocation, music, liturgy, literature, sacramental life and historical theology — all mixed in with stories and anecdotes about how I hope God is at work in the world and in my family.
I hope that you will share yourself with me, so that together we can offer our life’s “sacrifice of praise” to God in all the seasons of life.
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