Celebrating a Freshman Fiesta: Reflections on My Freshman Year at Cathedral High School
"You take a deep breath/ and you walk through the doors/ it's the morning of your very first day"- "Fifteen" by Taylor Swift While I am...
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Mary Stempky
Jul 304 min read
God Must Be Served First: The Aftermath of the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Every four years (absenting a few wartimes and the Coronavirus) the world seems to drop everything and glue their eyes to a tv screen to...
Mary Stempky
Jul 272 min read
Embracing The Klutz: Dyspraxia Lived Ch.3
Welcome Back to My series of Dyspraxia. Since we have gone through the basics time to get into some detail. Today I will talk about...
Mary Stempky
Jul 235 min read
This Is My Blood of the Covenant: Eucharistic Congress Day 5
Welcome Back, One last time. On July 21st, 2024, The 10th National Eucharist closed out with one final Revival Session with Keynotes from...
Mary Stempky
Jul 239 min read
This Is My Body: Eucharistic Congress Day 4
Welcome back!! On July 20th 2024 the Catholic Church had its fourth day of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress. The theme for the day...
Mary Stempky
Jul 2110 min read
Has Eternal Life: Eucharistic Congress Day 3
Welcome Back!! It's another beautiful day in Indianapolis. On July 19th, 2024, the 10th National Eucharistic Congress had it's third day....
Mary Stempky
Jul 197 min read
And Drinks My Blood: Eucharistic Congress Day 2
Good evening!! Another day entering into the beauty of the Eucharist. On July 18th, 2024, the theme of the National Eucharistic Congress...
Mary Stempky
Jul 183 min read
He Who Eats My Flesh: The Eucharistic Congress Day 1
Well, Welcome to this daily reflection on the National Eucharistic Congress. The Congress kicked off July 17, 2024. I am pretty sure...
Mary Stempky
Jun 167 min read
Hear, My Daughter, Your Father's Instruction: 5 Life-Lessons I've Learned From My Father
Each year in June, one Sunday is designated Father's Day. Broadly in Christianity, the primary image used to imagine God is Father.
Mary Stempky
May 187 min read
What The Mutts is a Busia?
Busia is the what I called my father's mother, Alice Josephine (Gularski) Stempky. I knew this woman for 19 years of my life. Today, May...
Mary Stempky
May 143 min read
Embracing the Klutz: Dyspraxia Lived Ch. 2
Welcome Back to the Wonderful World of Dis....Dyspraxia. Today I will be going through the history of this condition. Just because it is...
Mary Stempky
Apr 610 min read
Unfathomable Mercy: The Beauty of the Feast of the Divine Mercy
Happy Feast of the Divine Mercy Eve!!! The average Catholic probably knows Sunday, April 7, 2024 is the Feast of the Divine Mercy. What...
Mary Stempky
Mar 93 min read
Embracing The Klutz: Dyspraxia Lived
Ok time for a short TMI about my life story. Everyone knows what Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is. Everyone knows what...
Mary Stempky
Feb 105 min read
The Lenten Desert Where Souls Are Purified
Wait...isn't it still ordinary time? Yes. for the Ordinary Form the brief Ordinary Time between Christmas and Lent is still going on. For...
Mary Stempky
Jan 274 min read
Row Row Row Your Shell: Reviewing Boys in the Boat
Time for review of the recent adaptation of Daniel James Brown's Boys in The Boat. Now this is not going to be as in depth as I would...
Mary Stempky
Jan 225 min read
From Womb to Tomb: Why I'm Pro-Life
It's no accident that I'm posting this on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade (1973) overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson (2022). However, I will...
Mary Stempky
Jan 134 min read
Mama's Memoir From Agreda: Journeying Through the City of God
a Spanish Nun, Sister Mary of Jesus, an abbess in a Franciscan Convent in Agreda, received revelations about the life of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Stempky
Dec 25, 20234 min read
The Christmas Season Begins (Not Ends) Today
So in many ways it will seem as if the Christmas season ends with Christmas. But wait...does it?
Mary Stempky
Nov 11, 20238 min read
Coached by College: Change and Growth In Adulthood Chapter 1 (Part 2)
Welcome back to my merry journey! In a previous post, I recapped graduation and began to share my thoughts on the primary lessons I...
Mary Stempky
Oct 14, 202312 min read
Coached by College: Change and Growth in Adulthood Chapter 1 (Part 1)
While eighteen may be the legal age of adulthood, I was definitely unaware about what adulthood then. May 20, 2018 marked the day I began...
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