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Family Is Where We Learn to Serve the Least Among Us
(OSV News) – Ask any parent who launched their child only to have them return home – or encouraged them through rehab only to watch them relapse. Ask any adult […]
(OSV News) – Ask any parent who launched their child only to have them return home – or encouraged them through rehab only to watch them relapse. Ask any adult […]
During my husband’s years in business school, he learned about the power of the “nudge”: how to form a new habit by connecting it to a habit you already have. […]
Ask any teenager anxious about where they’ll sit in the cafeteria for lunch. Ask any widow or widower learning to cook for one. Ask a grandparent planning a holiday feast, […]
What’s the most important influence on a child’s faith, according to numerous studies? It is not attending Mass with their family; not watching their parents’ habits of prayer. It’s not […]
Here is a story that every family I know can tell: all of us have been sick … for a long, long time. In the past few months, our household […]
If I asked you to imagine Jesus’ childhood, you’d likely picture Him as a baby in the manger. But have you ever considered that Christ was once a teenager too? […]
I recently returned from a beautiful pilgrimage to France, but unexpectedly brought home a stomach bug to my beloved family. Talk about a bumpy reentry to ordinary life: from Lourdes […]
“Lord, now let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled.” Thus begins the Canticle of Simeon, the prayer drawn from the words of the prophet who held […]
Where does God show up on your calendar? I pose this as a real question, not a rhetorical one. If someone found your planner on the bus or a stranger […]
Who doesn’t want the church to grow or the next generation of Catholics to embrace a deep love for their faith? One simple way we can do this is by […]