What will homeschooling look like tomorrow? Mary Ellen Barrett asked five Seton Magazine contributors for their thoughts on the future of homeschooling.
Read More »5 Things I Want to Say to a Homeschooling Mom
Emily Molitor shares wisdom from her mom, that is, we need to focus on taking our days just one at a time. There is grace to be found anew every single day.
Read More »3 Ways This Stay-at-Home Mom Keeps a Happy Home
Winter often makes family life harder. Emily Molitor grapples with the long lonely days, and shares three ways she's discovered to nurture a happy home.
Read More »3 Ways to Start Seeing Life with the Eyes of God
How often do we become caught up in the externals of a situation, rather than viewing it from a spiritual outlook? When we judge our neighbors, react irrationally towards our ...
Read More »3 Ways Writing can be a Meditative Outlet for Growth & Your Prayer Life
Emily Molitor explore the three different ways that writing can help you discover yourself, destress from life and make sense of your prayer life.
Read More »The ‘Genius of Woman’: 4 Virtues that Women Live Best
by Emily Molitor | Pope John Paul II wrote extensively on the genius of woman, and I would like to focus here on a few specific virtues which he applies particularly to the heart of women.
Read More »Sharing our Treasure: Answering Christ’s Call to Give
by Emily Molitor | It might be difficult to fully understand why we need to give of our worldly possessions when we are always giving our time and energy.
Read More »Self-Gift: How We Can Share Our Talents with Others
by Emily Molitor | Giving of my talents can be a confusing concept. Often, I confuse sharing my talents with being prideful or vain. For instance, I did not always want to...
Read More »Why Others Need the Gift of Our Confidence
by Emily Molitor | I recall my teenage summers as a softball player, sitting in the dugout and sizing up the different girls on my team...
Read More »Staying Awake: How to Comfort Christ in His Agony
by Emily Molitor | Be awake! To better face the Enemy who tempts us with spiritual sleepiness we must develop a relationship of love and trust with Our Lord.
Read More »Looking Outwards: How ‘Finding Yourself’ Truly Happens in a Community
by Emily Molitor | A family is a community of persons, and a parish is a community of faith. We are called by Christ in every single vocation within the Church to be a “body of Christ”...
Read More »5 Ways to Include Our Children in Lenten Practices
by Emily Molitor | As a young college graduate, I spent four years teaching elementary school and enjoyed the many days with a classroom full of beautiful and energetic children. Lenten practices...
Read More »3 Reasons Why I Don’t Have a List for Lent
by Emily Molitor | We want to see the results of our labors, and we enjoy working hard for a tangible good. The problem is, that’s not what Lent is really about.
Read More »Why Nothing Fills Our ‘God-Shaped Hole’
by Emily Molitor | Do you ever feel like you are the neediest person on earth? Do you look for things to “fill” you every day? If so, perhaps you are like the rest of us.
Read More »Why I Hope to Homeschool My Family
by Emily Molitor | I don’t know how my life or my family relationships would be different today had my parents not made the decision to homeschool,
Read More »How Humility Shows Us We Need Others
by Emily Molitor | Joyful humility requires that we oftentimes accept our need for dependence on others. I recently experienced my need of support...
Read More »We Need Grandparents… Especially our Kids.
Emily Molitor believes that involving grandparents and children together teaches incredible life lessons. Turns out, we need them more than they need us.
Read More »Each Day is Forever: Are You Living With an Eternal Mindset?
by Emily Molitor | Our days are eternal. Yes, you and I will live forever in heaven, but have we ever reflected upon the fact that not only are our heavenly days eternal, but that the moments we are living here and now will live forever in the mind of God, and therefore live on in eternity?
Read More »How to Respond to Tragedy in a Spirit of Hope
by Emily Molitor | All that I offer, I give to Jesus. What does this entail? The cry of a widow over her murdered husband of one year? The agony of a mother by the bedside of her dying child? Opening the newspaper or checking my Facebook newsfeed reminds me daily: surely the world is one of suffering. Each way I turn I meet with a story of suffering, and I struggle not to become overwhelmed by fear and discouragement.
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