What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Essays

I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter.  Most of the highs have been near 40 degrees which has afforded me the luxury of continuing my daily run outside instead of being forced to move it to the monotony of my treadmill in our...

Book Review: The True Meaning of Christmas

by applewooddollhospital | Dec 8, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

by Michael Barber             I’m not an expert at Christmas, but it’s a holiday that fascinates me which leads me to read a lot on it.  So, maybe I’m a kind of a demi-expert?  Suffice it...

Book Review: Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know

by applewooddollhospital | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

by: Michael Barber There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be saved. Michael Barber takes the reader through 10 chapters of misconceptions and corrects them using scripture, the Catechism and the church fathers. This book is thorough and dense with...

Book Review: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls

by applewooddollhospital | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

by Dr. John Bergsma I got this for Christmas. It was as great as I hoped it would be.Doctor Bergsma is an Old Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls specialist and a teacher at Franciscan University. You can tell how fascinating and exciting he finds all this and his...

Saint John Chrysostom on Humility

by applewooddollhospital | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog, Quotes I Like

“Let us with great diligence…”