by John Clark | It’s official. My beloved 2002 Mustang convertible has gone its last mile. It is going to car Heaven, otherwise known as “the junkyard.”
Read More »Full of Grace: Mary’s Immaculate Conception and the Bible
by Dave Armstrong | A Catholic asks, “what does it mean to be full of grace?” For St. Paul, grace is the antithesis and overcomer of sin...
Read More »Dads: Irreplaceable Heroes of Homeschooling
by Christine Smitha | Out there, Dads seem to have acquired rather a poor reputation. They’re inadequate, bumbling, and terribly prone to mistakes.
Read More »Stuck on Seton… Forever!
by Lisa Duda | When I received Seton’s info packet in the mail, it hit me straight in the heart. We officially began homeschooling with Seton in 1995...
Read More »The Perfect Mother: Our Lady of Perpetual Help
by Mary Kay Clark | Jesus Himself clearly wishes us to consider her our Mother of Perpetual Help, considering all her apparitions and her messages...
Read More »“Holy Ground” and Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
by Dave Armstrong | Mary's perpetual virginity is fitting and proper by the nature of the relationship of a holy God and man.
Read More »‘Saints for June’ Crossword
Kids' Corner | Download this ‘St Joseph’ Crossword! A fun activity to challenge your knowledge of facts and trivia. For all ages! Answer these questions: 1) The month of June is dedicated to the ___ ___ of Jesus. 2) We celebrate the Feast of the ___ and ___ of Jesus on June 2nd.
Read More »Rain Delay
by John Clark | It is often said that baseball is a game between fathers and sons. I have a thirteen-year-old daughter named Philomena who would disagree, or would at least argue that this definition is incomplete.
Read More »Three Lessons from St. John Paul II’s Encyclical ‘On Human Work’
by Marc Postiglione | Modern man has tended to make work become a form of drudgery that people go to every morning and do their best to avoid and when possible even avoid all-together.
Read More »How Humility Shows Us We Need Others
by Emily Molitor | Joyful humility requires that we oftentimes accept our need for dependence on others. I recently experienced my need of support...
Read More »Spring Cleaning the Boy’s Room!
by Abby Sasscer | Today, we’ll be looking at The Boys’ Room. Since my parents were slowly transitioning into retirement, my father temporarily stayed...
Read More »St. Joseph and Homeschooling Fathers
by Marlicia Fernandez | More and more fathers are taking an increasingly active and hands-on role in the education of their children. Sometimes they seem...
Read More »Organizing my Life
by John Clark | To all you organizers out there, can you please write an organization book for me? To help you get started, I have some questions.
Read More »Be Reconciled with Others – Why It’s Crucial
by Lorraine Espenhain | No matter how noble our work for Him may be, be reconciled to our brother whom we have offended. God desires mercy, not sacrifice.
Read More »Brothers of Jesus: Biblical Arguments for Mary’s Virginity
by Dave Armstrong | In Jesus' Hebrew culture (and Middle Eastern culture even today), cousins were called "brothers". In my previous article, I wrote abo...
Read More »Help! My High School Students Can’t Concentrate With Younger Children Around!
by Mary Kay Clark | Consider asking your older children to start their schoolwork earlier in the day, for instance, at 7:30 a.m., so they can get at least one or two subjects done before the noise begins from the younger children. Since older children usually stay up later than younger ones, they might try doing some of their schoolwork after the little ones are in bed.
Read More »5 Great Reasons to Start a Homeschool Blog
by Kate Moriarty | Writing a blog is an excellent way to develop your creative and literary skills. Keeping a blog seems especially well suited to the homeschooling curriculum. A blog is like an online journal (the word “blog” is a contraction of “web-log”).
Read More »‘Rich in Mercy’: 3 Lessons from John Paul II’s Encyclical
by Marc Postiglione | We need to explain to our youth that mercy must be met with continual daily conversion in our own lives. In examining the parable of the prodigal son...
Read More »The Children of Hope
by Kevin Clark " | Recently, I read the novel The Children of Men by P. D. James. The premise of the book is that sometime in the not too distant future, women stop conceiving and giving birth. The book takes place approximately 25 years after the last child was born, and so there are, on the face of the earth, no more children.
Read More »Mary: Perpetual Virgin? 6 Biblical Arguments
by Dave Armstrong | Once upon a time, virtually no Christians denied that Mary the mother of Jesus was perpetually a virgin: including Protestants. Of the early leaders of that movement, virtually all fully accepted this doctrine: including Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Bullinger, and Cranmer.
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