Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love in your Family
We live in a society where discipline is not viewed in a positive light. Many parents think that it is better to be their child’s best friend instead. The results have been a society of immature adults. If you are interested in my thoughts on why discipline is so important for our children, our society… Read more
Our society has become a society of children, there is ample evidence to back up my claim. Think about how a child acts, they have a short attention span, they easily change their mind, they see something in the checkout line at the grocery store and they want to buy it. If a child doesn’t get… Read more
A New Year for many, means a new start, a blank page on which to write on. While this may seem silly to many, changing our habits can be difficult and a new year could be just the world event that helps us to resolve to do some things different. Here is a list of… Read more
12-28-2014 Feast of the Holy Family In the Beginning God the Father has a beautiful plan for the world. He created everything, the earth, the trees, the sun, the moon, the animals and birds of the air and us. He gave us free will so we could choose to love him in return for all… Read more
Raising a Holy Family The importance of being engaged in family life is key to raising a holy family. Our goal as parents should be to raise saints, also known as holy people, that will one day make it to heaven. On a more practical/secular level, we want to raise children that make good moral decisions, make good grades,… Read more
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. Christians in the early Church had great joy and that joy was infectious,… Read more
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. So for the last 27 years we have raised our… Read more
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… Read more
The Mission of the Family is to Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love and in this third talk of the 2014 Central Texas Retreat for Families, Fr. Nathan Cromly, CSJ, delves into the mission of the family to Guard Love. Intro Music courtesy of K4J All audio recordings of the talks from the retreat can be found on this page.… Read more
The Mission of the Family is to Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love and this fifth 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 to communicate love. Intro Music courtesy of K4J All audio recordings of the talks from the retreat… Read more
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