Ash Wednesday Resources {video, printables, and MORE}
PRINT these resources and WATCH our Gospel Video with your kids to prepare for Ash Wednesday!
National Catholic Register interview: How Holy Heroes Stirs Catholic Imagination
Wow--the featured article this morning is the interview with Kerri and Ken Davison (the Holy Heroes Mom & Dad)! One Q&A section that is getting a lot of interest begins with this exchange: Ken said, "Parents email and call that their children want to...
Family Rosary: A priest nails why many families don’t see the fruit of their family prayer time
This article from a Dominican priest has excellent advice about adding the rosary to your family routine (or modifying it a bit to get the real “rosary power” out of the family prayer). He has some great suggestions, just click on the button below.
They Know and They Do Not Care
Think back with me for a few moments...to when you were in school, when you were first taught about the horrors of the Holocaust of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Think some more...because if you are from my generation, the Holocaust was emphasized in...
How do you prepare for Confession?
Yesterday I left work early to go to Confession. I arrived early, so I knelt down with a little notebook to do an examination of my conscience and write things down before I got in line. As the minutes ticked by, I realized that no priests were coming, so I...
A summer story
The story is about a mother who witnessed her child's canonization. This mother's daughter is a saint, and she was there when the Church declared and celebrated it. This mother was also there years before when pornography entered her home. But she told no...
Mom is from Advent, Dad is from Lent
We’ve arrived in Easter — Alleluia! — but we had to pass through Lent to do it. So indulge me momentarily for a backward glance at those “40 Days.” When I ponder the long and hard journey of Lent, it calls to mind Advent, the other time when the priest wears violet at...
Good news about a very bad topic
I've been procrastinating about writing this post for a couple months now. It's a distasteful topic, frankly. Distasteful, but very important to address for our children. Sometimes I put off writing it for a very good reason: some of the kids were in the...
Test how well you (and your children!) know the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe
How well do you know the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe & St Juan Diego? Try your "Saint Smarts" here (and if you don't do as well as you'd like--check out the rest of this post to get a free audio CD so you and your children can learn the story of the...
Prayers for the Souls of the Faithful Departed
The month of November, which is the end of the Church's liturgical year, is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. These are the people, perhaps our friends and relatives, perhaps people we have known well for a short time or just passing acquaintances, who have...
Amy said: “On a whim, I put this on as my 6-1/2 year old was coloring a picture…”
Read down below to learn what happened when Amy did this (and her 4 yr old also plays a part in this episode), but first: Today is a fun FEAST DAY: November 3 Known as the Apostle of Charity ... patron of barbers (really!) ... miraculous healer of the sick ... and...
