Category: Family Formation
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The Cruelty of Dementia – Taking Care of my Father
Visiting the sick, it sounds easy enough, you visit someone who is sick, keep them company, bring them some food, take care of their kids, or bring them medicine. My family has been the recipient of this corporal work of mercy, with each of our nine children. Our friends and family would rise to…
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Joyfully Visiting the Sick
Our Time on This Earth is Short There can be joy in the dying process. I remember my reaction when my father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. It was significantly different from the other times I had experienced the loss of a loved one. In the past, I felt somewhat devastated and every fiber…
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Learning To Love During Death
It’s Hard to Grow Closer to Someone you Know is Going to Die I grew up in a loving family, we were very service oriented — giving of our time, talent, and treasure to help those in need. My parents constantly set an example, to show love in everything you do; give of yourself to…
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It’s All About Attitude
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…
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How to Be a Father after God’s own Heart
The world needs strong, faith-filled fathers who are seeking to love as God loves.
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Are you Afraid of Dying?
Family Funerals Funerals, everybody loves attending them, right? If you are like me, you don’t look forward to attending a funeral. Depending on who died, it may be a very somber event. In my forty five years on this earth I have attended funerals for the young, old and everyone in between. Funerals are a…
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Joy in the Midst of Suffering
We are a Joyful People We are called to be a joyful people, not because we are always happy or that things always go our way, but because we are children of God and He loves us with a never ending love. Â Christians in the early Church had great joy and that joy was infectious,…
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Family Matters
My wife and I are the only members of our family to have moved away from our hometown, the rest of our siblings chose to make their home fairly close to our parents, but we moved a mere three hours west to a smaller city. Â So for the last 27 years we have raised our…
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Wearing Your Catholic Faith
We attended the Midwest Catholic Family Conference (in Wichita, KS) in early August of 2011 and stumbled across Faith Factory Catholic T-shirts in the Exhibitors hall. They had some great designs and a special deal for large families to purchase matching shirts ($10 per shirt). Here is a picture of us in our new Catholic apparel: We have found…
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The Mission of the Family
The Mission of the Family is to Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love and this first talk of the 2014 Central Texas Retreat for Families provides some food for thought on this subject.  Fr. Nathan Cromly, CSJ, delves into the mission of the family and provides practical advice on how to embark on this seeminly daunting task.…