About a year and a half ago, my then 7-year-old son had picked up some books on ancient history from our local library. After devouring them, he decided he wanted to read more about ancient history. I had seen The Story of Civilization series mentioned in some homeschooling groups, so ordered Volume 1 and we […]
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Saints For Young Readers For Every Day have been an absolute gem for our family! Reading from these books has become part of our daily routine. They present a Saint or Blessed for every day of the year, following the liturgical calendar for the most part. The stories are concise but with enough detail to
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This flying novena to the Infant of Prague is great for urgent intentions for which you don’t have nine days to spare – you just say it once an hour for nine consecutive hours. Set reminder alarms on your phone and get the kids to stop and pray with you! Novena prayer O
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I was recently at a talk by Fr John Corrigan, who spoke about making a spiritual communion daily. He said St Thomas Aquinas even taught that it was almost as good as receiving the Eucharist sacramentally! So if daily mass isn’t do-able, we can still make a spiritual communion daily and gain the immense
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Life feels like it has been more hectic than ever lately, since our third baby was born last year. He’s not been a great sleeper, which makes days relentlessly busy and nights don’t always provide enough rest to adequately recharge for the next day. Part of me can’t wait for him to grow out
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A Biblical Walk Through The Mass does exactly what the title describes – Edward Sri literally walks the reader through the Mass, from the sign of the cross to the final blessing and dismissal. Each step of the way, he explains the origin of the Mass’s prayers, symbols and rituals with specific reference to
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Things change as your kids get older. When we first started praying the Stations of the Cross as a family during Lent, I printed off these prayers and reflections and off we went. Now my eldest can read fluently and wants to read them. So this year I collated them into an A6 size
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Cardboard boxes are so easy to acquire for free. Apart from boxes we’ve collected from buying products packaged in them, we’ve also gotten them from local supermarkets, hardware stores and bottle shops. Sometimes these places have an area where they leave boxes for anyone to take. Other times I’ve just asked at the customer service
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Over the last year or so, we have been learning heaps about what different foods do to our bodies and what foods our bodies need (and need to avoid) to function well. We’ve made lots of changes to our diet. We cut out sugar, most processed foods, hydrogenated oils and most dairy. We started
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This potato and cauliflower bake is a simple, tasty, throw-it-all-in veggie dish. Treat all my quantities as approximate and flexible – I took the “throw-it-all-in” thing fairly literally and am not sure exactly what quantities I used! I just threw in enough veg to look like a balanced mix and filled a 3L/23x33cm rectangular
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