If you ask someone what they love about parenting, they’re not exactly going to say: the sleepless nights, constant demands and lack of down time. Being a parent is hard, difficult and fraught with challenges and yet, for many of us, this vocation, coupled with marriage, is our path to sanctity. Yes, that was […]
Channelling Charity Read More »
First of all, congratulations. Some of this will feel really familiar and some will be worse. People will start asking you questions about the size of your family and whether or not you’ll stop after this one. Get ready and try to respond charitably, even though it is none of their business. You will
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Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is a familiar name in Catholic circles. She is a bestselling author, a popular EWTN television and radio host and called Mother Teresa a friend. Her own life story is incredibly inspiring and every time she brings out a new book I have to admit that I get more than a little
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Starting a family is daunting enough but even more so when everyone tells you that your life is about to end. And maybe it does change, irrevocably. But it doesn’t end as such. Sure the late, carefree partying and accompanying sleepovers the next morning are a thing of the past. So are sleep-ins and
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As I prepared myself for the seventh birthday of our eldest child earlier this year, I wrote a letter to his Godparents, which I didn’t send because I didn’t get around to it, about what we want for him as he reaches the age of reason. Thankfully we have chosen excellent Godparents… Dear Godparent
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Master 19 months is covered in bruises, bumps and scrapes. Just yesterday he fell over outside on cement, stood up in the bath and fell over before hubby could catch him and jammed his fingers in a kitchen drawer. A month ago he had his hands jammed in doors, on two separate occasions on
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Do you find yourself getting distracted during mental prayer? Does your mind wander? Do you ever have a problem that you wish you could just vent to someone but it is too personal to share? Perhaps you are just yearning to develop your relationship with God but you find it difficult to make time
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I recently wrote a blog post on same sex marriage for a website called Restless Press, a Catholic Australian and New Zealand blog where journalists and editors from across the two countries write on issues relating to all aspects of our faith. This article came, a few weeks after the US Supreme Court’s decision
Those Meddling Christians Read More »
Lately I have been feeling run off my feet with housework. Making, consuming and cleaning up after meals seems to take ages, and then there is laundry, meal planning, grocery shopping, things such as the toilet, bathroom basin and kitchen floors which are all well overdue for a clean, and did I mention making,
I’ll admit, as the mother of a boy fascinated with machines, I’ve often marvelled at how such small machines can achieve bigger feats than they seem capable of. One such vessel is the tug boat. I mean, the tug boat is a small vessel that basically tows ocean liners which are too big to
