"Let us with great diligence..."

"Let us with great diligence..."
by Kenneth Graham For the kids, this started a...
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Exile - The Southern Kingdom Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): The Jews in Babylonian captivity remained faithful to God and the law by praying...
Exile – The Northern Kingdom Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): There were some Israelites that remained faithful to God in the Northern Kingdom,...
Judah and the Babylonian Conquest Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Judah alternated between good and bad kings. King Hezekiah and...
Israel and the Assyrian Conquest Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): The Northern Tribes (now called Israel) had a famously bad king named Ahab who chased after idolatry like the captain with the same name chased after...
The Prophet Isaiah Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Isaiah prophesied that Israel would be chastised for turning away from God but to have hope...
The Kingdom Divides Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): The kingdom of Israel split in two. The ten northern tribes banded together...
This is saint Lucy. I was surprised to find out she was Sicilian since most images I’d seen of her were blonde! Very little is actually known about her except that she was killed under Diocletian (bad, bad man!) in about 304 AD. But there is plenty of legend...
King Solomon Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): God gave Solomon the gift of wisdom because Solomon was wise enough to ask for it. The...
Our Lady of Guadalupe. She’s my favorite Mary appearance. The missionaries were not making any inroads with converting the Mexican people. Mary, always happy to help bring souls to her Son, appeared to a poor man in Mexico named Juan Diego. She asked him to ask the...