In 1974, Robert Gutherman was a 14-year-old youth, one of 11 children growing up in the shadow of the convent of St. Katharine Drexel in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers had often served mass for the sisters. Though not […]
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Author: Susie Lloyd
Old Testament Saints??
If you ever wondered whether the holy men and women of the Old Testament are considered saints by the Church, December has your answer. The Eastern Rite calendar contains the individual feast days of five prophets: Nahum, Habacus, Sophonias (aka […]
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St. Matrona – Cross Dresser
Here we have a saint who left her husband and daughter to become a monk. Nope. Not a typo. St. Matrona is complicated. So much so that you might reasonably wonder: Why is she a saint? Let us see. St. […]
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St. Cyprian the… Sorcerer?
Just in time for Halloween, this month’s saint was a real charmer. Literally. Don’t get him mixed up with the other, famous, respectable St. Cyprian who was once bishop of Carthage and is now mentioned in the Mass. This is […]
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Why We Take Homeschool Summers off
We take our homeschool summers off. We’re not like those homeschoolers who go at it all summer with a two-week break to sleep it off. We get off at the beginning of June. This year, we legged it for a […]
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8 Ways to Make Homeschooling Great Again
Are you stuck in homeschooling? Do you feel as if you’re running in place? Gasping for breath, feeling the burn but going no where? Time seems to loop like the movie Ground Hog Day; every day is like the one […]
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Lucky Enough to Be Irish Is Lucky Enough: Irish Gift of the Gab
A certain percentage of my husband is Irish. The rest of him reluctantly concedes being Scottish and Welsh – a fact that some would say makes him a danger to his own bodily well-being. Like his Chinese/Irish buddy who isn’t […]
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St. Gianna Molla Told her Future Husband “I Love You” First
St. Gianna Molla embraced life with gusto. She was adventurous and passionate by nature. Her oldest child, Pierluigi, remembers that his mother loved to drive fast. If the roads were clear she put the pedal to the metal. She was […]
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Saint Bucolus: Middle Child Syndrome?
There is not a lot of information about Saint Bucolus but that suits a greater purpose. You see, Saint Bucolus was the first bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor (present day Turkey to you and me). He reposed peacefully in […]
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Homeschool Impossible: When Your Spouse Helps Teach – Nicht!
To be good at homeschooling, or at least to not let it lick you, you have to be good at the failures that are part of the everyday – the drawer full of broken pencils, the quarrel over the last working pen, the notebook that fell in with the odd socks and was swallowed whole.
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