This week our diocese held its fourth annual Concert for Vocations, which has become a favorite among the faithful. More than 600 people turned out at St. Pius ...
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![Monks, music and musings on monastic life](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Norcia_Benedicta_Cover-314x284.jpg)
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 ...
![Manic Monday: Family, friends and feeling blessed](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/palm-sunday-cathedral-400x284.jpg)
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 ...
![Manic Monday: Our main goal is staying warm](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sledding-Mary-400x284.jpg)
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 ...
![Music Monday: When You’ve Got Trouble](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/36_large-300x284.jpg)
My new favorite song, discovered on The Coffee House on Sirius/XM, for your Music Monday listening pleasure. Simple, beautiful, spot on. This one goes out to ...
![What did Mary know, and when did she know it?](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mother-and-child-400x284.jpg)
Earlier this week another Catholic blogger decided to do a line-by-line dissection of the popular Christmas song "Mary, Did you Know?" Nothing he said was new ...
![The Catholic Worker and the Quiet Beatle](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dorothy-day1-1-400x284.jpg)
Today we honor two of my favorites: Dorothy Day and George Harrison, a seemingly unlikely pairing on the surface but not such an odd couple when you dig a ...
![Manic Monday: Rocking the Bronx. And Syracuse.](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sunset-over-stewarts-400x284.jpg)
How is it possible we have already hit mid-July? I would find that totally unbelievable except for the fact that I'm looking out at my yard as I write this, and ...
![Manic Monday: On the edge of summer](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lucinda-400x284.jpg)
Summer vacation STILL hasn't started for us. A few more days of school before the kids are free and we sit down to make our annual Beach Bucket List. Noah is ...
![Wisdom Wednesday: ‘Go back to blue’](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-400x284.jpg)
I've decided to continue our Lucinda Williams theme by choosing her song "Blue" as our Wednesday Wisdom. One of the few "poems" I've written in my life is ...
![My long love affair with Lucinda Williams](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/512naa1EVrL-400x284.jpg)
When I moved to Austin, Texas, the first time... (I actually moved there twice, first in 1988 and again in 1995. Almost moved there a third time. It's that kind ...
![Manic Monday: And now, a break in the insanity](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ballet-2014-400x284.jpg)
After back-to-back, wall-to-wall dance dress rehearsals and recitals this past week, we have reached a place of calm. At least for the time being. I keep ...
![You make beautiful things…](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC_0165-400x284.jpg)
I'm sitting in my sunporch, sipping coffee and writing a prayer for a client on this gray day, with twinkling lights in my windows and an electric "fire" in my ...
![Grace finds beauty in everything](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/grace-400x284.jpg)
"She carries a pearl
In perfect condition
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
"Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly ...
A little musical inspiration on this first friday of March and first friday of Lent. I love this song, and when I heard it again yesterday as I was driving kids ...
![Lent, Day 2: It’s not too late to tweak your plan](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/screen568x568-320x284.jpeg)
So we're into our second day of Lent and maybe you're already thinking whatever you planned for Lent could use a little boost or support. Maybe the fasting part ...
![Only human, just a little human…](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/images2.jpeg)
This is one of those songs. Every time I get in the car, it seems to come on. Hadn't ever heard it up until a few days ago but fell in love with it the first ...
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As we move through the O Antiphons this week, I thought I'd let Amy Grant do the talking for me, at least for today, with this ...
![From Eagle’s Wings to Agnus Dei](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Unknown.jpeg)
When we got into our, um, conversation last week about good vs. bad liturgy, people from both sides of the spectrum chimed in with what they thought would be ...
![Manic Monday returns, along with ‘Muddy Jesus’](https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CopperRoof-400x284.jpg)
I've decided to bring back my Manic Monday post, if only to inspire myself to get back to regular blogging. In the past, this post has been a run down of books ...