About Me - Laetata Sum

It’s “LAY-tah-tah soom.”

If you had told me ten years ago when I was a lapsed Protestant — who would spend a lot of years mired in sin and desolation — that I would be Catholic now, I’d have snerked and said, “Right. Sure.”

If you had told me when I was a bitter, miserable soul who hadn’t regularly set foot in a church for a decade that the first verse of Psalm 122 — I rejoiced when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord” — would be a theme verse for my life, I would have rolled my eyes hard.

But here I am, a Catholic of the Latin Rite who gets really, really grumpy when she’s away from a tabernacle for too long.

And this blog is where I’m going to write down some of what happens in my Catholic life — partly because Lordship gave me some skill with words and I haven’t been using it much, and partly because in the sea of Catholic mom blogs there aren’t a lot of ports for us single Catholic women without kids.

So here I am: not a wife, not a mom, just a solo Catholic trying to follow the Lamb wherever he goes.

Laetatus sum in his quae dicta sunt mihi: In domum Domini ibimus.

Psalm 121:1 (Vulgate)

“Wait, this says ‘Laetatus’ but your blog is ‘Laetata’?”

Laetata: Nominative/vocative feminine singular of laetō.

Laetatus: Nominative masculine singular of laetō.

I only know this because of Wiktionary. Stop asking questions.