Project Siena

 I missed it friends!!  The feast of Saint Catherine of Siena was yesterday! It's okay though, we can celebrate today too 😉 Happy Feast! 🥳🥳🥳 So.. I realized something... I tend to give a lot of updates, and ask a lot of questions, but I don't do a lot of explaining, and I don't have many articles. So let me fix that by giving you updates but also an explanation.  Project Siena is about to go through a little bit of a change that will hopefully help in getting content out faster. Over the summer, hopefully around the end of May, and beginning of June, I will be releasing audio articles (basically a podcast). Sometimes it is easier to talk about these subjects than it is to write about it. These episodes will be available on this website, as well as Youtube, and quite possibly Spotify. The poll that I am including in this article is for questions and topics that will be discussed on the blog as well as in the audio articles. We will also hopefully be able to have some i...

Sometimes I worry about how I look.... okay oftentimes I worry about how I look. Not like the way I look, more like what people think of the way I act or do things. It's only natural, we all worry about the image and impression others have of us. Sometimes though, we obsess over it. I remember an occasion of this that happened to me rather recently. My family and I were walking up the aisle to venerate the crucifix on Good Friday. I was considering how to venerate it on my way, usually I would kiss the feet of Jesus, but this crucifix was very low, I would not be able to reach it without kneeling and bending low. Other people had done this, so I shouldn't have been worried, but I was. Why go to all that trouble? What would people watching think of me? Then I recalled a story of St. Therese. Her mother, Saint Zelie Martin, offered her a prize if she would only kiss the ground. Recalling this memory, St. Therese acknowledged that she had wanted the prize, and that to reach it ...

Hello friends!! Welcome to another Mission Field survey! Today our questions are " Who is your favorite Saint, and why? " and " What is your favorite Catholic devotion? " Enjoy!! Who is your favorite Saint, and why? "J oan of Arc, she did as the Lord asked without any complaints, she was called to save France, and she did , she persisted and persisted, and through blood sweat , and tears she did , " "S t. Monica because of her faithfulness in times of sadnes s" "S t Dominic. Because of his devotion to Our Lady and the rosary and his zeal in combatting the albegensian heresy and establishing the Dominican Order ." "S t. Joseph. I was born on his feast day and he was very close to Jesus and Mar y " "S t. Joseph, because he can teach me how to be a true man and fathe r " "S t. Therese of Lisieux, because she's my Confirmation saint and her story is such a beautiful one, and St. John the Apostle, beca...

He is risen!! Alleluia! Alleluia!  Happy Easter Monday, friends!! I hope your first day of Easter was amazing! Special fun fact about Easter: It lasts eight whole days, so it is still Easter day today. And the Easter season lasts fifty days, so we have a lot of time to celebrate! I have a quick note for everyone on the Novenas I mentioned during Holy Week. I realize I have not posted the prayers to the Divine Mercy Novena every day. This has been because Easter weekend was a wee bit busy, but also because so few people viewed it (only about 3 people according to the stats). I am not super great at explaining things like how to pray specific devotions, so it may be more helpful for people to look to the pray more novenas link! If anyone would like me to continue posting the novena (making up for the missing days and adding the new ones) comment on this post and I will have them up as soon as I can (the day of or the day after). A quick note about commenting is that your comments...

 Dear friends,  As we enter into Good Friday, I want to share with you these meditations I've written on the stations of the cross. I hope this helps you reflect on the events of today a little bit more.  See you in the Eucharist,  May  Station one: Jesus is condemned from the viewpoint of a follower of Jesus. “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” The shouts of the crowd echo in my mind. They seem to shake my very being to the core. Just a few days ago the crowds were rejoicing “Hosanna to the Son of David.” The sound brought tears of joy, sighs of relief, there He was, our savior, the messiah, the one we had all waited for. Now, the sounds of the crowd carry an earth shattering message. They wish to crucify my Lord. He is God, surely this will not come to pass, surely He will find His way out of this. I look to find Jesus. He stands bloodied beyond recognition, guarded by Roman soldiers. His eyes are sunken, every breath He takes is labored, people jeer and shout a...