Tag: parents and children
My experience in talking to loving parents
The words of a loving father “All I can do is journey with my son in suffering” The older I get and the more I experience being with people who truly take their roles as a father and mother seriously, the more humbled I am. I would think that if there is a royal road… Read More ›
Scriptures come to life for Irish families through Jesse Box
Rome, Italy, Dec 21, 2014 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new initiative out of Ireland is using Biblical dioramas to engage parents and children in Scripture. The Jesse Box, says one of its creators Sebastian Kraszkiewicz, aims “to help pass the faith to the children and to encourage family liturgy.” The diorama kit provides… Read More ›
Prayer makes the Son of God present among us
I wish to speak not to families “in the abstract” but to every particular family in every part of the world, wherever it is located and whatever the diversity and complexity of its culture and history. The love with which God “loved the world” (Jn 3:16), the love with which Christ loved each and every… Read More ›
Love and concern for all families
. . . prayer should first of all be an encouraging witness on the part of those families who live out their human and Christian vocation in the communion of the home. How many of them there are in every nation, diocese and parish! With reason it can be said that these families make up… Read More ›
Redefining “Family Time”
Want to get to know your family better? Shun selfishness, embrace selflessness. Do you value spending time with your children? You may think that’s a silly question. “Of course I do,” many parents might retort. “We’re under the same roof for hours every day. I lug them to basketball and ballet. We watch movies and… Read More ›
What Your Family Can Learn from the RB
By Delores R Lecky, taken from ‘The Record’ 9 November 2006 – from CNS Several choices Pope Benedict XVI made during the first year of his pontificate helped me to evaluate my everyday life as a Catholic Christian. The first choice, his name. It honored the founder of Western monasticism and reminded me how important… Read More ›