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 […]
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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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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
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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
I don’t mean that monster under the bed, I mean that mummy monster who comes out in the evening and towards the night! That mummy monster who is exhausted after a long day with the kids, or perhaps has worked and still had to rush home to get dinner prepared. We all have a
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We continue our discussion with Dr Emma Vieira. For the preceding article find the link here. Natural family planning – what is it? Natural family planning (NFP) is the avoidance of intercourse during known fertile times, in order to avoid pregnancy. There are several methods: Billings method – cervical mucus pattern Sympto-thermal method
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In the wake of recent discussions surrounding Natural Family Planning, I sat down with Dr Emma Vieira to look at the Catholic Church’s position on birth control, in all forms. Dr Vieira, thank you so much for agreeing to talk with me on this issue. It is certainly a contentious and controversial one.
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While sweeping my dusty floor boards today, my mind started to wander, and I began to think about the state of the world. Or the state of the world according to my Facebook news feed. I become so frustrated looking at my news feed, constantly being bombarded with opinionated, argumentative articles, boastful Facebook statuses
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Sometimes when life gets busy, we can fall into a little trap. A trap of having everything a little too ‘practical’. When this happens we tend to fit people in to part of a routine, a schedule. This unfortunately includes the ones we love the most. When your husband gets home from work, how
