Soul and Sacrament

I nursed both my kids and the La Leche League was a blessing to me when I had my first child. We met monthly (bringing babies with you was the norm). There was no internet to rely on for information. As you read this keep in mind that La Leche League it is NOT IN ANY WAY a religious organization. I had heard of the national group years before my first child was born. The group was founded 1956 by seven Catholic mothers in Chicago. “They chose the Blessed Mother, the New Eve, to be the patroness of their fledgling movement, under the title Nuestra Senora de la Leche y buen parto (“Our Lady of the Milk and Happy Delivery”), a title associated with an ancient Marian shrine in St. Augustine, Florida.” —(https://open.substack.com/pub/kolbecenter/p/la-leche-league?r=5omzc2&utm_medium=ios) In the first 2 years of our marriage my husband and I would often visit St Augustine, Florida, a beautiful, historic coastal town located between Jacksonville and Daytona. It is the site where the ver...

Bert Ghezzi's book THE POWER OF DAILY MASS is a short but very inspiring book. I highly recommend it. Bert Ghezzi interviewed his fellow daily Mass attendees and asked them how daily Mass attendance affects their lives. The interviewees all had different but beautiful perspectives to share. At different times in my life I have attended daily Mass for a few weeks or months at a time. One particular time I had started a new job in a very hostile environment. It was during my first technical writing job where the majority of the employees were ex- or retired Army and Air Force. The employees were vicious and hostile toward each other, on one particar day two employees got into a screaming match and almost came to blows during a team meeting. Nobody seemed to think it was unusual. It got so bad that I’d wake up in the morning dreading the screaming matches and cursing that lay ahead for the day. I became so anxiety-ridden while getting ready for the day that I decided to start atte...