This Lenten guide was written for homeschooling moms short on free time but long on their desire to please God and grow closer to him. Free Download Below.
Read More »Family Lenten Activities to Prepare Our Hearts for Jesus
As we journey through Lent with our family, Mary Ellen Barrett shares activities to draw you closer to each other and prepare your hearts to welcome Jesus.
Read More »Children Learn Almsgiving Making Blessings Bags
It can be hard for children to sacrifice but blessing bags can teach that we are called to see the face of Christ in all people and to love them as He does.
Read More »Just Another Mother: The Gift of Servant Motherhood
Alexandra Key reminds us that motherhood is usually not terribly exciting and often messy, but you will change lives and the lives of all those they touch.
Read More »Struggling With a Bad Habit? This Lent – Give It Up Forever!
Andrew Murphy suggests a new approach to Lenten penances. Instead of giving up a bad habit or something like chocolate for 40 days, give up it up forever!
Read More »5 Lenten Family Projects to Yield Abundant Fruit
Give up more than sweets with these 5 Lenten family projects and see how much lasting fruit you get in return. #5 may be hardest but could yield the most!!
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 »Detachment: Letting Go… to Make Room for God!
Detachment begins with viewing material goods as gifts from God, but does it end there? Emily Molitor considers what it means to be truly detached.
Read More »3 Ways Mother Teresa Shows Us to ‘Serve the Poor’ at Home
Emily Molitor reflects on the writings of Mother Teresa to show us how, in the role of wife and mother, we can become Mother Teresa in everyday family life.
Read More »A Mom’s 3 Responses to the “I Could Never Homeschool!” Mentality
Homeschooling mom Elizabeth Turajski combats the “I Could Never Homeschool” Mentality, with 3 Reflections on the Purpose of Homeschooling.
Read More »A Part of Our Lives: 3 Ways My Family Encouraged Vocations
by Kaitlyn McGrath | Reflecting on my childhood, I realized there were a few things my parents did to encourage openness to all vocations among my three brothers and me.
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 »How Marshmallows Can Change Your Life
by John Clark | How do we develop a sense of detachment? How do we get started? I propose one answer that might seem odd. Here it is: give up marshmallows. For the rest of your life.
Read More »The Foolish Magi: Silly Gifts, Serious Sacrifices & True Love
This famous short story that often appears in Christmas anthologies perfectly captures the Christian ideal of the joy of giving and the virtue of poverty of spirit. A young husband ...
Read More »Balance – An Alternating Rhythm
In Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s classic Gift from the Sea the author, using the leisure and recollection of a summer vacation at the ocean, reflects on the art of living a ...
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