The Sheepfold
All Saints Day
All Saints Day is coming up on Friday! All Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of...
All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween)
We have three days coming up, All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween as it is now commonly called. It is the celebration of the Eve of All Saints Day. So All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day. All Hallow's Eve can be fun as we are celebrating the Eve of a Holy...
Angels
On September 29 we celebrate the Feast of the Archangels and on October 2 we celebrate the Holy Guardian Angels. This is just some of the facts on Angels, not an extensive teaching. Who are the Angels? The simple answer is Angels are the messengers of God. God created...
Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day/The gift of spiritual motherhood
Motherhood is a gift from God To bring life into the world and to nurture that life is a profound desire that God knits into a woman’s heart. It reaches the very core of who she is, of her identity: she is one who participates in God’s creative power, and daily,...
St Joseph the Worker
Today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, Patron Saint of workers, which is all of us! We all work, even the smallest of us works to learn to hold our head up, crawl, walk, eat table food, etc. We spend many years working through play and school. Then as adults we...
Merry Christmas!
Advent; Marian Feasts in Advent; Nativities!
Happy and Blessed 2nd Sunday of Advent! We are almost to Christmas! I love how sometimes the 4th Week of Advent is short, as it is this year, 24 hours, barely. Other years it can last 5-6 days, especially if Christmas is on a Saturday. I feel it is Our Lord giving us...
Praising God’s work!
https://www.catholicextension.org/stories/castaway-children-thrive-thanks-to-this-catholic-sister/ It is humbling that serving the children of God is recognized. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Luke 1:46-47