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Building character with St. John Neumann

Posted in Liturgical Year Notebook, St. Paul Character Notebooks on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Virtue building is a very important mission for me as of late and I do feel compelled to step that job up a bit. We have fallen a bit lax on such things since the children smell weakness and life can feel at its weakest when mamma is hugely pregnant or with a [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted in Liturgical Year Notebook on March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was just visiting at Mary Ellen’s for the Loveliness of St. Patrick’s Day!!…what a beautiful  job Mary Ellen!!

Saint Patrick’s Breastplate
I  arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through the belief in the threeness,
Through confession of the oneness
Of the Creator of Creation.

I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth with his baptism,
Through [...]

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Readying the Heart and Home for Lent

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Lent, Liturgical Year Notebook, Making Studies come alive!, Religion on March 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I have been away from the computer so very much since lent started.  I am glad in a way but I miss blogging so much.  I managed to finally get up a post about readying the heart and home for lent at the new Lenten blog These Forty Days.  Come on over and drop us [...]

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Illumination..A Liturgical Art in Progress

Posted in Art-spirations!, Liturgical Year Notebook, Mary Notebooking on February 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »

While searching on the web this week we came across this interesting piece on The Book of the Hours and Our Lady. 

"The Books of Hours were the prayer books used by laypeople in medieval times.  Commissioned by royal family members, the nobility and wealthy patrons, they became status symbols, the jewels in the collections [...]

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Mmmm…the smells of morning!

Posted in Food and Drink, Liturgical Year Notebook on December 3, 2006 | 2 Comments »

I can’t wait to try this and some hot tea in the morning!  Can you smell it baking already?!  It will go real well for our morning read-aloud…An Early American Christmas by Tomie DePaola.  True to our new way of eating, we are substituting a few ingredients…like the sugar…
I want to do something artsy with [...]

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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Posted in Liturgical Year Notebook, Mary Gardens, Mary Notebooking, Notebooking Your Studies on September 14, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Today is the feast of the Exultation (or Triumph) of the Holy Cross and tomorrow is the memorial  of Our Lady of Sorrows….how beautiful the two should be celebrated together on the Church calendar!
Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be [...]

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