A friend summarizes her thoughts on getting older. In her view, it sounds pretty tranquil.

Meditation on the Spiritual Benefits of Age

If you are worried about your grandkids’ education, and your son or daughter wants to homeschool but feels overwhelmed, here are a few things you can do to help out.

What Grandparents Can Do to Help with Homeschooling

The Liturgy of the Church is the Eternal Hymn of Praise that is offered to God all over the world, every hour of the day. It consists of the Mass and the ordered reading of the Psalms. This is not just a monastic privilege or the office of religious; it is a great privilege for all of us, and the best way for us to imitate Christ in prayer.

The Divine Office is for Everyone

The Prosperity Gospel is an American phenomenon that has roots in the transcendental, and later New Thought movement with emphasis on positive thinking and personal power. It is a dreadful misreading of Christ’s message of the Good News. The blessings Christ’s speak of are not monetary. There is absolutely no evidence that Christianity’s good message is a promise of more money in the bank for the man and woman of faith.

A Catholic Look at the Prosperity Gospel

It should not be a surprise when our retirement years are spent using all the experience of our previous years but in a new way. Colleen Rooney has written a book for families on celebrating Advent and Christmas. She is working on more books to keep the Liturgical year. For support and continual learning, she goes to CatholicWritersGuild.org and CatholicGrandparentsAssociation.org. More about Colleen at her website CelebrateCatholicLife.com

Mom, Grandma, Catechist, Author –no official title, but never retired

Your child should have a growing collection of great stories to listen to. It's one of the first activities he can do on his own, even before he can read. Control the digital devices, but your child will learn to listen and recall and retell with vigor the lessons of life.  Start with ARGO Classics -- check them out for some of the best recorded voices of the previous half century.

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The post-war years as a refugee family in Germany, and then finally, an American welcome. From Mass in rubble to Mass in the Hungarian neighborhoods of Yorkville in NYC.

More with a Hungarian Refugee in the Hand of God

What was it like for a schoolchild to be a refugee in post-war Germany, when her own home in Hungary is being taken over by Communists? Erika Faber gives us an account of those harrowing years where she survived with a healthy spirit because of the selflessness of her heroic parents.

Hungarian Refugee Family in the Hand of God

In the 1960s and 70s, New York host Clifford Forster regularly held salons with international guests, socialist as well as conservative, all anti-communist, at the height of the Cold War. Joan and Neil McCaffrey were among the many habitues.

Joan McCaffrey Remembers Evenings at a New York Anti-Communist Salon

Joyful abundance, that’s the celebration of Christmas. So let heaven and nature sing; let heaven and the material world around us sing. Let the rocks hills, fields and floods repeat the joy. Let the Christmas feasts and the Christmas fiascos repeat the sounding joy.

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