Lately I have been thinking a bunch about the Blessed Mother and what it must have been like being Jesus’ mother? I know that Mary was gifted with extraordinary grace, but she was still human. And I know that Jesus did not sin, but he was still a little boy. When my two year old [...]
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My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 22 years. Our children are Hope (19), Lenny (15), Lily (11), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (6). Six doggies round out our happy brood. |
Most of the reading I do is about home education – methods, philosophies, lesson/unit ideas, etc. Well after watching the movie Therese about St. Therese of the Child Jesus, I felt inspired to buy her autobiography – the book that made her famous. It arrived Wednesday and what little I have had time to [...] [...] [...] Well my family and I attended a Traditional Latin Mass for the first time today. Quite frankly I was clueless to much of what was going on and my children gave me a horrified look when I told them they would have to kneel and stick their tongue out to receive Communion!!! LOL However I [...] I’m not really sure whether we should be celebrating the Epiphany today or tomorrow, so I opted for both!!! I decided to keep it relatively simple for today. We read Tomie DePaola’s The Story of the Three Wise Kings and made star shaped sugar cookies. Then we said our regular evening prayers. It was floury, [...] Recently when I posted about my liturgical calendar, I referenced a post by Katherine of A Living Education. This led to a series of emails between Katherine and me about how we could make our calendar reusable year to year with the changes in the liturgical calendar (i.e. some feasts are not always on the [...] [...] As far as my children are concerned, my major resolution concerns celebrating more fully the liturgical year and the feast days of the Church and becoming a more prayerful family. I see this taking several forms: 1_ Using both the picture books from Catholic Mosaic and activities from A Year with God: Celebrating the Liturgical Year, [...] |
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