I guess that’s why I spent part of my Sunday Mass distracted by them. Not because they were a distraction in the negative sense, but because they were a living picture of what it means to be faithful and faith-filled.
by Sasha T. Brelinsky Why? It’s the question bouncing around my mind. Why? Just as my pain becomes bearable, just as I feel like maybe I can start to go […]
by Sasha Brelinsky I suppose writing is in the blood here in Brelinskyville. My daughter, Sasha Terese, wrote this poem recently for a poetry contest being held at our local […]
Certainly, she hadn’t inspired warm, fuzzy memories or funny cat pictures to post on Facebook, but still I couldn’t stop the feeling that I wanted her back home. I wanted her to die knowing (as much as a cat can) that she was cared for.
“Why? Why didn’t she just follow my example? Why hadn’t she been able to figure it all out just the way I wanted her to,” I considered. I didn’t […]
My children and I had traded our usual lazy Saturday morning routine on this wintery morning to pay our respects to the family of a young man who had died just the weekend before.
In part 1 of this discussion on rethinking your birth control, I defined what it means to be a woman. Not just a modern woman, but a whole woman according […]
The house was buzzing with the usual school morning routines. There was foot traffic up and down the stairs and hallway, dishes being banged and stacked, and water pouring through […]
By Nikolai R.F.X. Brelinsky This is an original work written by my 17yo son. With the end of summer fast approaching (too fast as far as I am concerned), […]
A Catholic priest friend began a blog while he was still a deacon. His intention was to help his readers grow closer to Christ through prayer. For one of his blog […]