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Several years ago my mother gave me a brown scapular with a brief explanation about it's significance, and a hint that I would be needin...

Hi Sister Mary Martha! I love your blog, I read it about as often as I pray my rosary (about 1-2 times a day). I have a question! I grew up ...

Who's the patron saint for those of us faithful Catholics who work for social justice and the marginalized but are surrounded by conserv...

Ok, here's a question for you. I don't know if this can actually be answered....but I was pondering the other day this thought: Did ...

I am busier than a cranberry merchant. That's another phrase my mother uses. I say it all the time and people look at me like I have t...

I am never late for anything, left to my own devices. I take into account that traffic may not be doing what I think it should be doing, I t...

I have a question for you to write about. You've said before that clergy and parents are responsible twice over when they sin or teach o...

Can you recommend a patron saint for potty-training? I need help! I saw an episode of Dr. Phil. Sister Mary Fiacre was on a Dr. Phil kick fo...

I always think of St. Nicholas as a German saint from Germany. Of course, this is ridiculous. He was from Turkey and the Eastern Orthodox Ch...

Is there a patron saint for the disorganized? Our parish could use some help lately. (Just don't send Sister Nicholas.) Who said St. Nic...

This is my mother's mind boggling story, told in her own words. Someone asked me, after yesterday's post, how I knew her story. She ...

I've been thinking about telling you my mother's story. Then the local paper trumped me and printed it themselves. My mother was rai...

"'To each his own," said the old lady as she kissed the cow." Another of my mother's famous sayings. She has approxim...

Oh dear. Although I am always tickled pink to find Catholic clergy and religious with their noses to the fund raising for a worthy cause gri...

Remember last year, after I was gone for awhile and the garden became an overgrown mess? We found Jimmy Hoffa. I think this year I might jus...