Greetings supporters and friends of Your Holy Family Ministries. We pray that your Christmas season has been and will continue to be filled with Faith and Family. We write to you with much joy after celebrating Christmas with most of our children who were able to travel home. Our hearts are full of gratitude for what God has been building in our family over the years. We have seen ...
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This is a question that has been asked throughout all of history. Many poets, songwriters and philosophers have sought to provide an answer to people of every age and yet people continue to ask and to seek a love that will fulfill the deepest desires and longings of their hearts. For we were made to love and to be loved, and our hearts are restless until we find it. God is love and thus we should look to ...
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Lent has just begun, a season of reflecting upon the suffering and death of the Lord and go with him to the foot of the cross. Many of the faithful offer up a token sacrifice for 40 days to better learn how to love. These sacrifices have meaning, these little daily sufferings in a small way, prepare our mind and bodies for any real sufferings that will inevitably come our way. For most adults, suffering is nothing new, anyone who has lived past ...
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Your Family was started on the day you got married, and after you took your vows. The presider may have uttered words similar to the ones above. It not only applies to you and your spouse, but also to your entire family. The world many times seeks to separate what God ...Posted by:
When speaking with new parents I often get asked what advice I have for them as they begin their family. It makes sense, they have a blank slate and they want to do everything they can to ensure success and happiness for their children. So ...
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There comes a time in every parent’s life when their child grows up. 
For some this is a relief, for others complete misery. As parents of nine children, with our oldest being twenty-two, we are in the throes of launching children into the great big world and we will continue launching for the next eleven years. For my wife and I, this is an exciting time, we get to see ...
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I meet lots of people in my line of work and in the work with our non-profit ministry to families and I am always amazed when someone shares with me the struggles they or members of their family are going through. No one and no family is immune from trials and tribulations, some are just better at hiding what is going on behind closed doors.
Personal and family trials are difficult and are very hard to deal ...
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I absolutely love the courtship approach to dating for my children, but it isn’t enough. Courtship is the idea that young people should only enter into an exclusive relationship when they are ready to get married. I have discussed in a previous blog post exactly what Dating with Purpose looks like, so go check it out for more details if you wish. In short, Courtship, or Dating with Purpose, establishes a set of guidelines or best practices that should ...
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Attitude, we all have one. Our approach to a person, situation or event usually has a great influence on how it will turn out for us and everyone else involved. One bad attitude can wreck an entire party. The same thing can happen within our homes. There is one chapter in the book Arms of Love, by Carmen Marcoux, that shows how one person who “woke up on the wrong side of the bed” can have a profound ...
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A few years ago around this time of year, I made an inquiry on my Facebook Status, “To Prom or not to Prom, that is the question”. I figured I might get a few responses, but after 36 comments over the course of 3 days from 21 different people, it seems there was no lack of opinions and interest in this subject. So I wrote a blog post about how we came to the decision for our oldest daughter.
The question ...
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