Author: John Schultz

This Lent
My wife always asks me what I’m giving up for Lent, knowing that I give something up. She prefers to add acts of charity and almsgiving rather than focus on the thing to give up. For me, beer and wine are on the Index of Forbidden Beverages at least until Easter. We’re going to starting praying the rosary together in the evening before bed as well.
I’m also going to post some things I’m thankful for here during Lent. It seems to me I need to think about those things in the context of Lent and that may open me up to the grace of being more humble and receptive to God’s will in my life.

Lent around St. Blogs
Fr. Jim Tucker: Ash Wednesday Homily.
Online Lenten Retreat – Day One
Books for Lent, brought to you by sortofnapping.com, Amy Welborn.
A nice list from Karen.
I’ll stop now that I see she’s done more research than I have!

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I took off the pic of the hairy man because I got sick of looking at him.

A new Catholic Light baby!
Eric and Paige Johnson had Christopher Steven Johnson on Feb. 14th – he’s a healthy little tyke that’s got the nickname “Critter.” Please keep Eric and his family in your prayers and if you have a moment drop Eric a line (address is in the left sidebar.)
For those of you just joining us, Eric is an author on this blog that is currently in an undisclosed location (wink, wink) with the Marine Reserves.

Affirmative Action Bake Sale
“BERKELEY, Calif. – Students at a California university used cookies instead of protest signs on Wednesday to demonstrate against college affirmative action policies… For the same chocolate chip cookie, whites were being charged $1.50, Asians $1.25, Latinos (Hispanics not from Mexico) $1.00, Chicanos (Hispanics from Mexico) 75 cents, American Indians 50 cents, and blacks 25 cents.
…only about 30 cookies, bought in bulk from a big-box store, were sold.”