I’m celebrating a birthday soon and I have to admit that as I have travelled through this final year of my twenties I have had plenty of time for reflecting on my life and that of my peers as my friends from school and I begin to mark these milestones together. My life to […]
Miss almost 5 will start school in a few weeks. She will turn 5 just 2 days after starting Kindergarten and whilst you may think that making the decision to send her to school as a young 5 year old was an easy decision, it hasn’t been and I still pray that we are
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A post advent reflection. This past advent was our first in our own home. Previous years: 2011 – our first advent and Christmas was in France with my husband’s family, 2012 – our first with our baby daughter, staying at my parents’ then moving out, with our wedding and in-laws visiting, 2013 – moving
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‘Look Mum, look!’ cried Miss 4 animatedly, ‘there’s baby snails in the tulip!’ I rolled my eyes skyward and made a mental note to spray the garden for slugs and snails. In the meantime Miss 4 had been joined by Miss 2 and they oohed and ahhed over the ‘cute’ baby snails, campaigning to
One of the most tiring gags of the secular world is the use of the term ‘Immaculate Conception’ to explain an unexpected pregnancy. Even within the Catholic laity there is a general misconception about this term and what it means. Those who do not understand its meaning attribute the term to the conception of
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This year my children have discovered scissors in a big way. And I know from experience that scissors, in the hands of a small child, and hair are not a good combination. The first haircut of note was not noticed until the morning after it had occurred when my four year old daughter woke
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‘And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns
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‘We must therefore consider the Eucharist as: — thanksgiving and praise to the Father ; — the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body; — the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit .’ (CCC 1358) The above quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the
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As a mother of a very inquisitive two-year-old girl, I was very reluctant to put up Christmas decorations on the first Sunday of Advent. But then I stumbled across this idea; a felt Christmas tree where she was in charge of the decorating and exploring the shapes of this festive and holy season. There
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“The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they come from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes.” (CCC 1603) From the very
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