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Saint Peter and the Pressure to Be the Rock

January 18, 2023 By Margaret Ellsworth 1 Comment

I bet there is a “strong one” in your family: the rock on whom the rest of your family can depend.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Disney, Feast of the Confession of St. Peter, parenting

This Advent, This Love

December 19, 2022 By Laura Shaver 1 Comment

In keeping with a resounding theme, Advent, this year, has truly served as a time to reflect on love

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, death, love, parenting, parents

Preparing our household for Allhallowtide

October 21, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 2 Comments

When suffering and grief inevitably find them, I want my children to be able to access the rituals of Allhallowtide

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, All Saints' Day, all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, parenting

Is God Keeping Track?

October 3, 2022 By Christian Simmers Leave a Comment

The pandemic threw us all out of our routines. Try though we may, our family has struggled to re-establish the weekly patterns we held dear before masks, social distancing, and home antigen tests became part of our daily lives

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: middle school, parenting, volunteer

Help My Unbelief

September 30, 2022 By Laura Shaver 6 Comments

Since the horrific day in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, life has seemed harder. I have had quite the struggle leaning into my faith — not to understand what took place, but to gain a hold of the hope that typically defines my heart.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: doubt, gun violence, parenting, resurrection

The Ignatian Examen: A Prayer for Overwhelmed Parents and Ordinary Days

August 29, 2022 By Margaret Ellsworth 2 Comments

There are seasons of parenting which also feel long and green, when the days and moments blend together in one continuous stream. During one such season for me, when I was a stay-at-home parent, I found help in a prayer practice made for ordinary days: the Ignatian Examen. 

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Forward Movement, parenting, Prayer

Praying Compline with children during this summer of disruption, violence, and injustice

August 22, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse

It’s 9 pm on a Tuesday evening, and my 9 and 11 year old boys have just finished their second full day of Camp Mama.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: compline, parenting, summer, young children

Florence Nightingale: The Challenge of the Lady with the Lamp

August 12, 2022 By Jamie Osborne Leave a Comment

Florence both challenges and inspires me. This week I’m reflecting specifically on what her life means for me when it comes to raising my own children.

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Saint Ignatius and a Flock of Minecraft Sheep

July 31, 2022 By Ben Day 2 Comments

When we got home, he downloaded Minecraft on my iPad, and I don’t mind confessing that for the next three straight hours, I engaged in what can only be described as “Ignatian Meditation, Version 2022.”

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: Good Shepherd, Minecraft, parenting, vacation bible school

Gentle Mary

July 26, 2022 By Mariclair Partee Carlsen 1 Comment

In the early months of the pandemic, locked down with my young children in a too small city row house with no real backyard to speak of, I found myself losing my patience, something already in short supply, much like milk, diapers, and grocery delivery slots.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parenting

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