Incense. Ad orientem. Funny hats. It’s all Latin to you.
Maybe, like me, you’re a cradle Catholic who realized one day that you don’t really know so much about the Roman Catholic faith as you thought you did.
You see all these beautiful traditions and suddenly feel a stranger to your own roots.
Or maybe you’re a convert with all the zeal of a first-time love, but don’t know where to begin.
Maybe you feel isolated from robust community—”How do I pray the Divine Office when I’ve never had it modeled for me?”
Or too silly to ask the basic questions like “What do I do with blessed salt?” or “Can I meat on Friday?”
Maybe you’re curious about tradition but you’re overwhelmed by the politics or cult of personality that seems to surround it.
You’ve come to the right place.
A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. Job 14:7–9
The roots are still here. … and they are ours to water.
Our Roman Roots is a place to find resources to help you do so.
Here you’ll find:
-Timeless ways of bringing the liturgical year into your home inspired by the time I’ve spent living in the old world (Europe).
-Rich and thoughtful explanations to help busy laity better understand the Traditional Latin Mass in small easy bits.
-Real life tips and for using (and singing!) the traditional Divine Office in ordinary family life.
-Inspiration for restoring the joy of Christian culture in homemaking and homeschooling.
I’m a Traditional Catholic wife of over ten years and a mom of five (one in eternity). I hold my doctorate in Philosophic Studies, which is just a nerdy way of saying that I completed an old timey program and spent a lot of time reading and thinking about the great books that built Christendom and Western Civilization. You can call me “Dr.” but my favorite titles are still “Mrs.” and “Mama.”
I’m not an expert in Church teaching or even Rome. In fact, my expertise landed me in Athens or Oxford—in ancient Greece or Early Modern philosophy. My vices are many and my virtues are few so if my personality here is not your cup of tea, I do hope you will still learn more about Catholic Tradition elsewhere. I love Holy Mother Church and pray to make good use of my nerd skills to share this love.
I’ve been running Friday Trivia for Mass of the Ages for a few years now. My writing has appeared in places like The Federalist and Crisis Magazine.
St. Francis de Sales, patron of writers and journalists, pray for us!
“Man is not a balloon going up into the sky, nor a mole burrowing merely in the earth; but rather a thing like a tree, whose roots are fed from the earth, while its highest branches seem to rise almost to the stars”
