Christmas Eve, 2025
Christmas at our house begins on Christmas Eve morning. The adults, as usual, were up long before the children, working on the last bits of making the house presentable for…
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December 29, 2025
Día de los Muertos
A couple of weeks ago, Laurent invited the family to come downtown to the Basilica for the All Souls Day celebration - mass, followed by the annual Día de los…
November 2, 2025
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A Wonderful Weekend
The school year is done - hallelujah! There has been much celebrating around our house, in the way of sleeping in, staying up late, going to pool parties, and most…
May 26, 2025
Habemus Papem!
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the Diocese of Chicago, has been elected as the 267th Pontiff of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the first Pope from North America, taking…
May 8, 2025
Easter 2025
Oh our Easter was a beautiful one! Musically, we were blessed with brass and timpani, a small but mighty choir, and of course our glorious pipe organ. We renewed our…
April 20, 2025
Jubilee 2025
Pope Francis has declared the year 2025 to be a Jubilee Year, a year of hope. You can read here the text of SPES NON CONFUNDIT, the Papal Bull of…
December 30, 2024