’Tis the season to make a photo calendar December 18, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Every Christmas our family presents my parents with a beautiful calendar full of grandchildren pictures. Everyone loves the calendar. Everyone except, well, maybe the person who knows the calendar is going to be her responsibility the next year.
A live nativity offers a lesson in joy December 15, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized Our fourth grader may have only had one brief job to do, but he embraced it wholeheartedly. He held the Star proudly and peered through the center of it with an enormous smile. His eyes, his smile, and his whole face were full of joy.
Advent calendars, December excitement, winter concerts, and more (7 Quick Takes) December 13, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Christmas comes at the same speed no matter how quickly or slowly you open those Advent calendar doors.
Be Our Guest December 12, 2019By Father T. Austin Murphy Jr. Filed Under: Blog, Diamonds in the Rough Everyone who comes to us should be reminded that through their Baptism, they are priests, prophets, and kings — not just in some fairy-tale sense, but truly, because their relationship with Christ makes them so.
Advent: Finding purpose in expectant waiting December 7, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Open Window When my husband and I were matched with our son, we thought we might travel to China to adopt him in just a few short months. But it turned out to be a much longer process.As the months dragged on and the wheels of bureaucracy moved slowly on both sides of the world, I grew […]
Celebrating St. Nicholas Day, accepting Advent as it comes, name tags, skating, and more (7 Quick Takes) December 5, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Open Window Happy St. Nicholas Day! Every year we leave our shoes by the door the night before his feast day, and we wake up the next morning to treats in our shoes.
The four Ps of Advent December 5, 2019By Father J. Collin Poston Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Dust and Dewfall Father Poston offers some tips for making the most of this Advent season.
Approach Advent with a sense of wonder November 30, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Open Window It’s almost impossible not to get caught up in the busyness of the season. So, maybe instead of resisting, we should lean into all of it. Maybe we can embrace the fullness of Advent and soak it all in.
Thanksgiving leftovers and highlights, oyster shucking, a ride in a vintage car, and more (7 Quick Takes) November 29, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Thanksgiving is about spending time with people we love, but it’s also about the food. And you can’t have Thanksgiving dinner without pie.
‘Time for a different approach’ November 27, 2019By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary We have to do something – actually we have to do a lot of somethings: strengthen families, fight poverty, promote the dignity of life – so that when we get to the end of 2020, we’re not looking at 300 or more homicides in Baltimore again.
Turkey Bowl at 100: Enduring lessons from coach Brune November 26, 2019By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog Under the auspices of the Jesuits, Brune taught several generations of young men the value of doing the right thing, doggedness, loyalty, patience and dozens of other seemingly passé traits.
It’s not Thanksgiving dinner without sauerkraut November 24, 2019By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Sauerkraut at Thanksgiving adds that extra something you didn’t even know you were missing.
