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Francis and Clare
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare –...
Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray In 13th century...
My Journey Not to Get a New Puppy
The journey began when our local animal shelter posted a dog for adoption. She was a Great Pyrenees mixed with Anatolian shepherd. She was fully grown and ready to be dropped into the life of a loving family. I’d looked into getting a Great Pyrenees...
What if the urge to go out drinking is actually a misinterpreted yearning for children?
Now hear me out. Whenever a new psychological theory is introduced, it always initially sounds preposterous. Children and drunk people seemingly appear to belong to two entirely different categories of people with which to hang out. But after...
Rebuilding the Temple to Make it More Ascetically Pleasing
“I want to start working out,” I told my husband. “I’ve been reading up on asceticism and the desert monks. I definitely think a little discipline and corporal discomfort could be just the boost I need in my spiritual life.” “But your life is fraught with daily...
Implementing a Daily Schedule for Peace in Your Homeschool Day
I often found myself lying in bed at night in my messy house, with the kids’ school half done, meals that were late (and a few only qualified as meals in the most technical sense of the word) and wondering “where did that whole day go?” Saint Paul said that Our Lord...
Should I Use My In-Laws’ House as Free Storage? A Dialogue between Husband and Wife
After putting a load of laundry on in the basement, I sat down across from my husband at the dining room table. “It looks like a Crate and Barrel down there.” My husband politely put his bookmark in the book he was reading and set it on the table, readying himself to...
The Mustard Seed
Matthew 13: 31-32, Mark 4: 30-32, Luke 13: 18-19 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yes when...
The Wheat and the Weeds
Matthew 13: 24-30 Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. So when the plants came up and...
How to Broach Difficult Subjects with a Husband: an Absurd Fiction
I’ve tried several methods of broaching difficult subjects with my husband over the course of our marriage. I’ve tried talking to him directly about them. This is the method most often suggested by people with “degrees” or “long marriages.” I have to say, I don’t...
The Sower
Matthew 13:1-9, Mark 4: 1-9, Luke 8: 4-8 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in...