Hello!! Sterling is back with the Just One Small Thing Podcast, joining the select few who have been guests TWICE (Sterling, your certificate is in the mail 😉 ).  You might know Sterling from her Catholic Minimalism Facebook Group or her podcast “Coffee and Pearls“. Or maybe you’ve read some of her books? Today, the three […]

Next in our Sacramental Series, we’re learning about Scapulars.  We’ll talk specifically about the Brown Scapular today. But there are several different color scapulars each with their own particular devotion. The Scapular is a beautiful tradition of our Church that started with the Carmelite Order.  The Carmelites, unlike many of the orders founded around the […]

Today, we’re diving into another sacramental of our Faith: the Chapel Veil.  Reminder from last week: Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that sacraments do, but by the Church’s prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it. (CC1670) Wearing a veil at mass […]

For the next four weeks, we’re diving into Sacramentals.  What are they? Why do we have them? How did each particular devotion come to be?  Firstly, let’s take a look at this line from the Catechism: Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that sacraments do, but by the […]