As we cross the threshold of a new year, can we embrace what's ahead — with all its messiness and challenge — and offer ourselves and our world compassion and ...
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On Holy Saturday the Albany Times Union featured an interview with me on the sacred time between Lent and Easter and the joy we await in this 50-day season. ...
It's been a while since I checked in here on a Monday, so I thought Holy Week would be a good time to do it. I hope you are all healthy and happy and enjoying ...
Manic Monday makes a rare reappearance! It's certainly not because I have so much time on my hands because I am busier than ever, but the good kind of busy. ...
It's been a while since I did a Manic Monday post, so I thought I'd pop on and give you the rundown of what's going on in my world. Actually, to be honest, I ...
It's Monday again, and you know what that means? Time to check in on what's going down at the Poust House during this week of pandemic. The weather has ...
Some of my blog faithful will remember that years ago, at least five, one of my regular blog features was a weekly post called Manic Monday. It was a fun little ...
Today is the 12th anniversary of this blog. I launched it back in 2008 on the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers, not really knowing what ...
In the span of one week, at my job as a Church communications director, I had two people separately accuse me of completely opposite — and equally untrue — ...
It's mid-March, and that can mean only one thing on this blog: It's National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. That means it's also time for me to parade out a ...
My reflection from Give Us This Day:
St. Paul’s story of conversion always sparks a little jealousy in me. Probably not the appropriate reaction, but let’s be ...
I came across this video clip via the Morning Air Show on Relevant Radio and clicked on it mainly because I love Gregorian Chant, but it is so much more than an ...
I was honored to be able to attend the funeral of Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh this morning in the chapel at her motherhouse in Albany, where family, friends, ...
I woke up this morning and noticed a link to a Novena to St. Catherine of Siena in my Facebook feed. I will admit that I am not one to pray novenas often. Okay, ...
I know things have been relatively quiet here for the past week or so. That's because I'm renegotiating my work/life schedule these days, and it's taking some ...
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany marks his first anniversary as spiritual leader of our Capital Region diocese tomorrow, April 10. By clicking on the ...
Thanks to a perfect storm of vacation, childcare, and Marriott reward points, Dennis and I turned this Easter weekend into an early 20th anniversary ...
These are busy, crazy times here in the Poust House, and things only promise to get a bit crazier as we head toward the Triduum and Easter. That photo on the ...
Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form has been something I've always wanted to experience and assumed I would love. I am a Catholic who revels in the traditions ...
It's a Lenten Manic Monday, and it's going to be a cold one. We're starting at 12 degrees and working our way down to -11 by end of today. That's -11 without ...
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