Faith

  • Murphy’s Law: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Yesterday, Valentine’s Day, was as horrible as it could possibly be. This happens every Lent, like clockwork. If you start writing about how holy your kids are, by the time you hit publish… Continue reading

  • Radical Transformation: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Ash Wednesday in our home is a day of radical transformation. There’s an immediate change in atmosphere: the house is quieter, and my teen is playing chant (a rarity these days, for him). I woke up to two kids who… Continue reading

  • Plumbing the Depths: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Lenten Reading: On the dedication page of the book, there’s a quote from Blessed John Paul II, which he addressed to the Austrian bishops, but is quite applicable to us as parents. “Your first duty as pastors is not projects… Continue reading

  • Unschooling Resources

    From the 4Real Forums: What Is Unschooling?: ” We choose to live in ways that keep us conected and involved in each other’s day to day lives. ..We believe that learning will happen in its own time and is not… Continue reading

  • “In-Spite-of-Mom” Schooling

    A friend at our Catholic Filipino homeschooling forum asked, “What is unschooling?” In years past I’ve shied away from answering this question because the pioneers already have, and I didn’t feel I had anything to contribute. Of course this was… Continue reading

  • An End-Of-Year Examination of Conscience for the Family

    Continued from this post on Raising Pro-Life Children Amid A Culture of Death. There are many versions of an examination of conscience out there. I wrote this for our family, but I share this here in case it might be… Continue reading

  • In the Quiet of Advent, the Call

    Well, it’s done. The RH Bill has passed in the Philippines. Now the real work begins. Some thoughts on this dreary Monday afternoon, as I ponder what my fellow Catholics and Filipino friends and family are facing: I’ve been thinking… Continue reading

    In the Quiet of Advent, the Call

  • Where I’ve Been

    Faith: From Project: Sowing Seeds: 101!! Books to Read in this Year of Faith — includes some of my favorites, some that I’ve been meaning to read, and many that I’ve never heard of before. Poll: Catholics want pastors to… Continue reading

  • On Old Loves: An Epilogue

    simply put, we grew apart. gone are the shared experiences, the friends, the common threads of existence that we used to be able to draw from, grow from, that nourished us as individuals and as lovers. we were young, and… Continue reading

    On Old Loves: An Epilogue

  • Soulmates / Soul Mates in Catholic Doctrine

    Our online pro-life group started a discussion over the weekend on “soulmates”. It took several interesting turns, and many participated, but I don’t know that we completely addressed the gist of the OP’s question: He asked: The popular saying goes:… Continue reading