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Book Review: The Vikings
by: Elizabeth Janeway This was a pretty good book. I read it aloud to my 4th grader for his history and I...
Book Review: Confessions (F.J. Sheed translation)
by Saint Augustine of Hippo I’ve tried a couple of translations of this book over the years and I’m not...
Book Review: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Dr. John Bergsma I got this for Christmas. It was as great as I hoped it would be.Doctor Bergsma is an Old...
November 26, 2022
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
Happy Feast Day of Saint Margaret of Scotland!
Saint Margaret of Scotland was the Catholic queen that tamed her wild, Scottish husband. She had a special devotion to the poor and for...
From The Habit of Being
"I distrust pious phrases..."
Saturday Morning Fairy Eggs
November 12, 2022 Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are...
From Charles Dickens
"...as easily lost as gossamer."
George Washington’s World
by Genevieve Foster I read this with my son for his history class. The concept of this book was very cool. It went through the main stages of George...
From Orthodoxy
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures...
Putting the Hallowed back in Halloween
My Childhood Halloweens As a kid in a non-religious household, I enjoyed all the secular aspects of Halloween. the art projects at school my...
Happy Feasts of Saint Jude and Saint Simon!
Saint Jude was one of the 12 apostles and became a very powerful intercessor so anxious was he to prove he wasn’t THAT Judas. The flame represents...