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  • Humility and a Shared Vision: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Continuing to read Fr. Thomas Dubay’s Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer. Pages The second main root of conflict is seldom even noticed in our day. It is called illuminism. – emphasis mine I like to call this form of the aberration… Continue reading

  • Dialing Down: Deep Conversion Deep Prayer

    Temptations when you’re trying to get holy. Continue reading

    Dialing Down: Deep Conversion Deep Prayer

  • 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

  • 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

  • Musings for Aisa

    Well, Ais, since I’ve missed more than a week already, this will be more like another brain dump. I know you don’t mind. 🙂 Paco was all excited with the paycheck he got before we left for Migi’s NYLT. Wow,… Continue reading

  • Most Relaxed Thanksgiving Ever

    I think we have a new tradition that we would like to keep the next few years. We didn’t sleep in and woke up the kids at 7:30 so everyone could get ready for the 9 am Mass. Before we… Continue reading

  • Da Nino Boy, 2 Years in 15 days

    Nino Report to follow, Ninongs and Ninangs. Continue reading

  • Kid Funnies

    It’s a tradition in the family that when there’s a sick child, they get to eat whatever they want to eat, even if it’s something we don’t usually purchase/make (with the exception of really unhealthy stuff like candy and Spam).… Continue reading

  • August Reads #3 (Migi and Yena) [reviews]

    – cute, but kind of pointless – Verdi is our “Composer of the Month” for September, and this is a perfect rabbit trail book — the illustrations are just beautiful. I have a newfound appreciation of Aida. The drama of… Continue reading

  • The Attack of the Colds. (And the Sleepies.)

    Well, it’s official. The Summer Cold has invaded our family. Three of us are down. Tonight we allowed our 12-year-old to skip the family Rosary so he can sleep early — we were praying quite late because Dad and I… Continue reading