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Easter Traditions Tag

Happy, happy Easter! He is risen, alleluia! I've seen many Christmas-y tags, but I don't think I've ever seen an Easter one...so I got the bold idea of creating my own Easter tag. I realize, however, that if I were…

By Lizzie Hexam April 10, 2026Miscellaneous, Spiritual Life4 Comments

Spiritual Life

The Role of Feelings in Holy Week

We've entered the beginning of Holy Week. In a couple days we'll be beginning the Triduum, the time when we walk with Jesus during His Passion, death, and ultimately His Resurrection. I always find myself very focused on what I'm…

By Lizzie Hexam March 31, 2026Spiritual Life12 Comments

Spiritual Life

Upcoming Canonizations

You may already know this, but the new news in the Catholic world is that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati are going to be canonized on September 7! Bl. Pier Giorgio especially is one of my 'special…

By Lizzie Hexam August 18, 2025Spiritual Life6 Comments

Bookishness Spiritual Life

Inklings // June 2025 (The Great Divorce)

The Inklings prompt for June (see Heidi's post here for rules to link up!) is a scene with running water in book or film. Heidi already chose a (fantastic, of course) C.S. Lewis selection for this prompt, and I am…

By Lizzie Hexam July 28, 2025Bookishness, Spiritual Life13 Comments

Spiritual Life

Seeking the Glory of the Lord

In my Sacred Scripture class this past semester, we spent some time tracking the movement of the glory of the Lord throughout Scripture. In Exodus, we see the glory of the Lord is very close to His people Israel. God…

By Lizzie Hexam April 20, 2025Spiritual Life8 Comments

Period Dramas Spiritual Life

Inklings // March 2025

The prompt for the March Inklings (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene with strangers meeting / becoming acquainted. Since we are in the beginning of Holy Week, leading up to the most holy time of…

By Lizzie Hexam April 15, 2025Period Dramas, Spiritual Life3 Comments

ceramic rabbit sitting on top of a stack of books

Bookishness Spiritual Life

“It will be an inducement to her to read more herself. … She means it, I know.”

...or in which Lizzie rambles about books she wants to read, because Lack of Time In General also means Lack of Time to Write Actual Intelligent Blog Posts, and this will be quick and fun to write (and hopefully at…

By Lizzie Hexam April 5, 2025Bookishness, Spiritual Life26 Comments

Spiritual Life

The Surprising Joy of Ash Wednesday

In a few minutes from now I'll be leaving for a quiet, somber Mass with almost no singing, no Gloria, and at which we in the congregation will receive on our foreheads blessed ash in the shape of a cross.…

By Lizzie Hexam March 5, 2025Spiritual Life7 Comments

Spiritual Life

My 10 Favorite Advent Hymns

What ho, readers all! I apologize profusely for abandoning the blogosphere for so long; end-of-semester papers paired with some less-than-stellar time management will do that sort of thing sometimes. It's been so long since I last posted that we are…

By Lizzie Hexam December 12, 2024Spiritual Life8 Comments

Easter painting of the women finding the empty tomb

Spiritual Life

Happy Easter!

I don't just wish you a happy Easter; I wish you a deeply joyful Easter, an Easter whose meaning soaks into your innermost consciousness and which envelops every part of you - physical, mental, and spiritual. Worship the Lord in…

By Lizzie Hexam March 31, 2024Spiritual Life8 Comments