Sometimes chaotic, often exciting, homeschooling is a blessing for the Berquist family making it possible to form their home into a vibrant domestic church.
Read More »Holy Homeschoolers: Lessons from Saints Anne and Joachim
On the Blessed Mother’s birthday, we can look to her parents, Sts. Anne and Joachim, to find valuable lessons on teaching the children God entrusted to us.
Read More »Betty Bayley’s ‘Homeschool’: How We Can Help Save Our Children & Our Country
Dr Mary Kay Clark shares the struggles and inspiration behind Elizabeth Ann Seton's homeschool idea as a blueprint for saving our future.
Read More »5 Simple Homeschooling Tips from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Abby Sasscer starts her year with a pep talk for our heroic, homeschooling moms, looking to Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton’s beautiful words of wisdom!
Read More »St Elizabeth Ann Seton on Her First Confession
The words of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton on the day of her first Confession are very appropriate: “How awful are those words of unloosing after a thirty years’ bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine Messenger. My God! What new scenes for my soul!”
Read More »Upon this Rock
Pregnant and nauseous, I traveled with my husband, kids, and parents to Emmitsburg, Maryland, to sit on a rock. Yes, a rock. It’s a long story that begins and ends with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. As I sat on the rock from which Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton taught her first three students, with my first three “students” Gianna...
Read More »Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Life of Pain and Joy
Elizabeth Ann Seton, born in 1774, was the first native-born American to be canonized a saint. Her father was a physician, while her mother was the daughter of an Episcopalian ...
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