Book Review: The Way of the Cross

by applewooddollhospital | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews

by: Caryll Houselander             This probably goes without saying, but this was an excellent book to read for Lent.  There is an overview of the Via Crucis and then a chapter dedicated to each...

17 February 2024 – Why Catholics Can Have Fish on Friday, Why Ice Floats on Water, the Savage Habits of Blue Jays

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 16, 2024 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs, Uncategorized

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...

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...

Saint Michael’s Lent is an Oasis of Atonement in the Liturgically Ordinary Desert

by applewooddollhospital | Aug 8, 2023 | Blog, Essays

I’ve had an article published in Crisis Magazine. Please click the link and enjoy! What is St. Michael’s...

To Know Christ Jesus

by applewooddollhospital | May 16, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

by FJ Sheed             I read this book for Lent.  It was a nearly perfect Lent book.  It even had 45  chapters so you could read one per day and be finished by Holy Week....