Father, forgive them
Holy Week is a great time to spend time in prayer with the crucified Jesus. On Palm Sunday this year we hear the passion from the gospel of Mark, and…
Empathetic Learners
Happy Lent all! I am sorry that I haven't been posting any Lenten prayer and teaching resources, but it has been a difficult time for me and my family, and…
Amazing Catholic Schools Week Doors part 1
So for the past many years, our school has had the tradition of decorating classroom doors to celebrate Catholic Schools Week. Since my decorating process usually starts with me combing…
Happy Catholic Schools Week!
Recently I've had multiple opportunities to reflect on the reasons I chose to work in a Catholic school when I began teaching, and also the various reasons why I continue…
#sharejourney
This Sunday Pope Francis will celebrate a mass in honor of the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. This is in no way a political post, but it seems…
Advent Party Poppers
Happy second week of Advent! I hope you are having a prayerful season so far. I know I am caught up in the usual tricky balancing act of not letting…
Advent Bookmarks
Because our school only meets for the first two weeks of December, I have to cram all four weeks of Advent into two weeks of instructional time. After my experience…
O Jesse Tree 2.0
A few years ago I was visiting my friend Anna, and she had a front room full of colorful wooden pegs in all sorts of phases of painting. At that…
It’s beginning to look a lot like….Advent?
Happy November all! After All Saints Day, I think Advent is my very favorite time to be Catholic. (I think that come Holy Week, I might say that is my…
Knowing the Saints
"You know a lot of saints." This offhand remark by a student last week really got me thinking. While I know that the student was referring to book knowledge of…