Posted January 28, 2024 in Life / 0 Comments
Hello all! I figured it was time for a reintroduction post as I am working on some new things for the blog and my YouTube channel.
My name is Amanda and I am a consecrated virgin in the Catholic Church. I was consecrated just over six years ago on January first in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings at the hands of Bishop Michael Warfel.
I have a bachelors degree in Theology and a masters degree in Catechetics and Evangelization from Franciscan University of Steubenville. I also have graduate studies in elementary education. I have worked for Catholic parishes in various ways for the past six years.
My hope is for my blog and YouTube channel is to share pieces of my life through that I read and so as a consecrated virgin as well as to provide some insight on what I believe as a Catholic. I have some ideas on what I would like to cover. If you have any comments of suggestions, please let me know in the comments.
I have roughly decided on a weekly framework into which posts will be categorized. This does not mean that there will be a post every day but that all posts in these categories will be posted on these days:
- Mystic Mondays — topics relating to the mystics of the Church (I wrote my undergraduate thesis on three women mystics of the Church.)
- Talking Tuesday — personal updates and topics that don’t fit into the other categories
- Wednesday Reads — topics related to books I have read as well as book reviews
- Theological Thursday — theological topics and teaching moments to provide insight into the Catholic faith
- Friendly Friday — topics related to my heavenly friends, the Saints
- Weekend (Prayer) Warrior — weekend posts on prayer
Again, if you have any feedback, I would be more than happy to hear it.
I have also decided to restart my email list that includes an email notification for each post on the blog. If you are interested, please sign up below or in the sidebar.
May God bless you abundantly and grant you peace.
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Posted January 16, 2020 in Life / 6 Comments
It has been awhile since there has been a real, steady blog posting schedule. But I am not going to pretend that it is magically going to get better immediately. The thing is, I need to get back into the habit of reading novels, writing reviews, writing blog posts, and filming YouTube videos.
My goal for both this blog and YouTube is to post at least once a week for the foreseeable future. I miss the routine I had gotten into of reading for fun and then writing about then. I miss doing that.
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Posted June 26, 2019 in Life / 3 Comments
There are a LOT of planner layout options. What do you pick? Monthly? Weekly? Daily? Hourly? Horizontal? Vertical? Which one is best?
This question very quickly gets personal. Everyone has a planner layout that will work best for them. It really will depend most upon your own needs in a planner.
But stick with me, I’m going to go over some common planner layouts.
As a note, I will be using planner layouts from Plum Paper to discuss the various layouts. Plum Paper has the most options for planner layouts that I have found and all are customizable. If you would like to receive and email with a 10% Plum Paper discount link on a purchase of $30 or more, please scroll to the bottom of this post to enter your email address.
First up is the monthly layout. This layout is typically included in all the other layouts but can also be just by itself. This layout is great for people who don’t need full weekly or daily layouts and only have one or two things to record for each day.
Personally, I use this layout within my weekly planner to record important dates I need to remember like birthdays, anniversaries, special feast days, and important appointments.
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Posted June 19, 2019 in Life / 0 Comments
July is typically the month where I start a new planner. I know most people start in January or maybe August if they are a student. Well, I start in July.
So why did I pick July?
There are a few reasons I picked July over January or August. First, I have been in the academic world since kindergarten and so academic year planners make perfect sense to me. I also hated the one year I did not use an academic year planner and had to worry about changing planners while also worrying about Christmas. That did not work for me.
So then I have the decision between the summer months: August (what most people choose), July (why I chose), and June.
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Posted June 13, 2019 in Faith, Life / 0 Comments
It has been way too long since I have really posted on this blog and so this post is going to be an update.
I have been in Oregon for a year working as Faith Formation Director in a parish. It has been a fun challenge. I loved the work I was doing but it was not a good fit for me. Much as I wanted to love everything about where I was, I couldn’t. And so I’m moving back to Montana.
In May I finished the last of my graduate school classes. I just have to pass a comprehensive exam the end of this summer and I will officially be able to add MA after my name. That is, provided I pass the test…
In this past year I have had some ups and some downs. At times I was tempted to focus on those downs as they always seem more prevalent than the ups. This is human nature where we often tend to focus on what when wrong and ignore the fact that so many things went right.
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