by Mary | Apr 11, 2008 | family, Life Lines, Original NSS
I posted my April Life Lines column on my main Web site today. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my latest reflection on family life and faith, which will run not only in Catholic New York, as it does each month, but also in the upcoming issue of Living Waters, the newsletter of ENDOW. Here’s a little bit to get you started:
I brought my two daughters to church one recent weekday afternoon because I needed to pick up some information. As I talked to someone in the vestibule and gathered what I needed, Olivia, 7, and Chiara, 2, skipped up and down the aisles of the darkened church, pointing at stained glass windows and talking about which candles they would light. I finally caught up with them, shushing them as we walked down separate but parallel aisles toward the altar.
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by Mary | Apr 9, 2008 | Books, Idiot's Guide, Original NSS
So I finally presented a signed copy of my book to Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany today. It was a very nice visit; the girls and Dennis came along. Noah was at play practice, so he had to miss out. The bishop gave Olivia a beautiful Tau cross and Chiara a little gold dove pin, which was such a nice surprise.
In other book news, for any Not Strictly Spiritual fans out there in western New York State, I will be on Western New York Catholic Weekly with host Kevin Keenan on four different radio stations this Sunday: WBEN/Buffalo at 6:05 a.m.; WCJW/Warsaw at 6:30 a.m.; WLOF/Buffalo at 10:00 a.m., and WJTN/Jamestown at 7:00 p.m. I will be posting the interview early next week in case you want to check it out.
For those in the Rockland-Westchester region, keep an eye on The Journal News for a story on the pope’s visit. Gary Stern interviewed me for that story, so hopefully you’ll find me there some time between Sunday and Tuesday. I’ll link to the story as soon as it’s posted.
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by Mary | Apr 8, 2008 | faith, Original NSS
Pope Benedict XVI released a video in anticipation of his upcoming visit to the United States. Here’s an abbreviated version of the video via YouTube. The pope arrives in Washington, D.C., one week from today.
Yours truly will be working the New York leg of the papal visit. In addition to being part of a three-person blog team for Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic news weekly, I will be covering the youth rally at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, on April 19. About 25,000 young people and seminarians are expected at that event, which will be my first papal experience since I was a youth myself and saw Pope John Paul II at Madison Square Garden in 1979.
I will be updating my blog throughout the visit next week, but I hope you’ll check out OSV’s blog, which you can visit by clicking HERE.
If you want to read the full text of the pope’s message, click HERE.
by Mary | Apr 7, 2008 | family, Noah, Original NSS
Noah served at Mass for the first time today, and I have to say that I was so proud I was just beaming. That’s him in the photo above with our pastor, Father David Berberian. For me, this day ranks way beyond his first Little League game or even his performance as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz back when he was in second grade, which is saying something.
I know this wasn’t an easy step for Noah. He doesn’t really like to be up front and center — wonder where he gets that from — but he went ahead and did it anyway, and he did a great job. Next stop: the “big church” on Sundays.
by Mary | Apr 7, 2008 | book review, Books, Idiot's Guide, Original NSS
The Curt Jester reviewed my book today, telling readers that it is “a quite useful addition to the number of books concerning the Catechism.” If you want to read his full review of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic Catechism, click HERE and visit his site, which is worth visiting any day of the week. It’s a daily stop for me.
If you don’t have time to get to the review today, here’s a blurb:
“I found the Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic Catechism to be totally in conformance with the Catholic faith and presented the faith quite well. There are plenty of sidebars to further explain words and concepts likely to be unfamiliar to the reader as is common with these types of books. It is also written in a manner easy to read and she uses some humor in her explanations. Though she does not let the humor get in the way and mainly keeps to explaining the various paragraphs of the Catechism. As you would expect there are paragraph reference numbers to the Catechism throughout the book…Mary DeTurris Poust’s book is an excellent entry into the field and one I can recommend to those looking for a solid introduction that is also light reading.”
The full review is also up on my amazon page, which you can get to by clicking HERE. If you’ve read my book and would like to post a review on amazon or as a comment to this entry, please do so. Thanks!
