Sherry Antonetti

1 month ago | patheos.com | Sherry Antonetti

So we have before us, this precious time. Yesterday, I learned about a tragedy involving a family that suffered unto death, from the scourge of mental illness. The father lost his fight, and took with him, his wife and two teen sons. My friend who knew the family, felt like what’s the point when all this scratching and striving and trying can lead to this sort of outcome. What is the value of a life lived in which one may have striven, sought, found, but then yeilded?

1 month ago | patheos.com | Sherry Antonetti

I watch cooking competitions all the time, like Guy Fieri’s “Tournament of Champions.” (Yeah Antonia Lofaso)! We also watch Top Chef and this year, I am rooting for Tristan. The guy is a rock, steady in the kitchen and in life. Go watch the Pizza and the Restaurant Wars episodes if you want to know why. He’s a good cook and person –and that’s what I like. For years, we played a cooking game like Beat Bobby Flay (I’m Bobby by the way), at home with our older children.

1 month ago | patheos.com | Sherry Antonetti

So, President Donald Trump mentioned he wouldn’t mind being named Pope. Leaving aside the abolute hell no reflex, this is comedy gold. So I will be tweeting ten things the Don would do if elected to the papacy, tongue planted firmly in cheekiness. First, I know the Conclave is rigged because if it weren’t, I would already be named to the papacy. Everybody knows it.

2 months ago | patheos.com | Sherry Antonetti

Pope Francis died Easter Monday and the world has lost a good and faithful servant of the Catholic church. His papacy began in the fall of 2013, when then Pope Emeritus Benedict retired.  Hallmarked by a consistent deep love for the poor, manifested in visible outreach to the imprissoned and the marginalized, Pope Francis also called on the modern world, the western world, the wealthy world, to recognize the humanity of the poor and the suffering.

2 months ago | patheos.com | Sherry Antonetti

I’d decided not to listen to the news this week, in an attempt to turn my focus more to God, than to the world.  At mass on Sunday, the pastor mentioned that today’s mass was for …he said my mom’s name. On Palm Sunday, the mass offered at my parish, was for her.   My kids love for me to make crosses out of the palms, and I was able to give them to some of my children. It was an offering of hope.  However it did keep me from fully focusing.