Monthly Archives: January 2010

Discouragement and Pride (Guest Blog @ Catholic Chicks)

January 15, 2010

I had the opportunity to guest blog over at Catholic Chicks today. If you haven’t checked out Monique’s wonderful site, please do. There’s lots of great content by Monique and other Catholic Chicks. Below is my post. Discouragement and Pride by Guest Blogger Angelica Recently, I read a quote by Therese of Lisieux: “Discouragement itself is a form of pride.” The quote is a deep one. A first glance one may ask how being discouraged or discouraging can also be [...]

2010: It doesn’t matter how you say it, but how you live it

January 3, 2010

In the past few days I have heard and read much about how one says or writes the new year. Is it “two thousand and ten” or “twenty-ten”? While I side with “twenty-ten,” I also realize that how we decide to write out the year on paper has nothing to do with how we decide to live it. A new year ushers in new opportunities to pursue our dreams, to grow in new ways, and to set out to accomplish [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

January 1, 2010

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more, Ring out the feud of rich [...]