With great delight we share a collection of Seton family photos as they celebrate their wondrous, glorious Easter Day! Christ is Risen, truly he is Risen!
Read More »How Do You Observe Holy Week in Your Homeschool?
Here are four homeschooling moms with years of experience to share with you how they weave their Holy Week observances into their family's faith formation.
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Jeff Minick has tips to help us more fully receive the special graces available to homeschooling families through the challenges and demands of Holy Week.
Read More »3 Surprisingly Simple Steps to Finish the School Year Strong
A homeschooling mom for over 11 years, Kara Milinovich offers three simple steps to help your family get on a schedule to finish the academic year strong.
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Reflect the Light of the Resurrection! Pope Benedict XVI encourages us to nurture the fragile flame the Lord has lit within us, becoming people of the day.
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Easter is a joyful celebration for Christians everywhere but what is it that we are really celebrating? Rosa Younan ponders our role in Resurrection Sunday.
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Put down the candy and plastic bunny toys! Easter is upon us but it’s not too late to add these easy basket fillers that are both useful and sugar-free. Easter ...
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Live Holy Week as Jesus did in the gospels. Jennifer Elia presents simple ways for your family to celebrate the eight days from Palm Sunday to Easter.
Read More »Celebrating Easter Joy in Our Home with Food and Traditions
Traditions always brought Amy Pawlusiak's family together and now, as a mom, she passes them on to her children to make Easter special, memorable, and holy.
Read More »A Student’s Lenten Prayer to Grow in Virtue
Bob Weisner provides St. Ephraim's prayer to recite and pray every day this Lent to grow in the virtues every student needs, including charity and patience.
Read More »5 Ways to Keep the Easter Spirit Alive in Your Homeschool!
We have a harder time observing Easter than we do with Lent. Amanda Evinger shares 5 ideas to keep the spirit alive through family crafts & activities!
Read More »Mary Ellen Barrett – March: Feast Seasons and Easter Joy
Mary Ellen Barrett is back with fresh feast days and family ideas to celebrate the month of March, from St. Ciaran through Easter Sunday!
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by Mary Ellen Barrett | Mary invited me to her home on Friday to pray the rosary with her family, Chris’ family and two other families.
Read More »The Patron of Homeschooling
by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | She was adopted as the patron saint of homeschooling Catholic leaders back in the 1980s when we gathered together in the Chicago area to discuss Catholic homeschooling issues.
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by Fr. Edward C. Hathaway | In connecting Sunday with Easter, Saint John Paul II followed an ancient tradition in the Church.
Read More »Holy Week: The 3 Holiest Moments of the Whole Year
We stand on the threshold of the holiest week of the year. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, when we recall both Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem ...
Read More »Living the Liturgical Year: Make ‘Ordinary Time’; Extraordinary!
by Monica McConkey | As Catholics, we enjoy our own special calendar, celebrating the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter as well as a significant number of weeks of Ordinary Time. It’s a shame really, that it’s called ordinary, because it’s still filled with plenty of Feast Days and celebrations that are quite extraordinary!
Read More »‘The Glory of Easter’ Word Puzzle
Kids' Corner | Download this 'The Glory of Easter' Word Puzzle! A fun activity to for all ages! Search for these words: Ascension, Athanasius, baptize, disciples, Fatima, James, Matthias, olives, Philip, Trinity, Visitation, worker.
Read More »‘Glory of Easter’ Crossword
Kids Corner | Download this ‘Glory of Easter’ Crossword! A fun activity to challenge your knowledge of facts and trivia. For all ages! Answer these questions: 1) The Feast of St. Joseph the ___ is celebrated on May 1st. 2) He was bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century; his feast is May 2nd.
Read More »Celebrating Easter for 50 Days!
by Monica McConkey | Forty days is a long time! Although our Lenten program pales in comparison to Jesus’ sojourn in the desert, we recognize the struggles of our sacrifices and resolutions and how difficult they can be to maintain for forty whole days.
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