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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Feast of the Assumption

Father in heaven, all creation rightly gives you praise, for all life and all holiness come from you. In the plan of your wisdom she who bore the Christ in her womb was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven. May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness and join in her hymn of endless love and praise. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Background of the traditional blessing of herbs.
A super yummy rosemary bread recipe to try.
And lots more information and celebration here.


Joyous Resurrection

a poem for the Easter octave

Easter
George Herbert

Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him may’st rise:
That, as his death calcinèd thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
With all thy art,
The cross taught all wood to resound his name
Who bore the same.
His stretchèd sinews taught... READ MORE 


All Dressed Up…

http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/topic/510/Papal-clothing-and-liturgical-practices?page=37

The church in Rome has all these charming little customs—like dropping rose petals through the oculum of the former Pantheon on Pentecost.

Today’s feast of the Chair of St. Peter is the occasion for one of them: the dressing of the statue of the apostle in St. Peter’s basilica in vestments (scroll down for pix).

They do it again on the feast of Ss. Peter & Paul.

Today’s feast is a celebration of... READ MORE 


Family Feasts

Do you celebrate? How?

When I checked my email this morning, I got a happy surprise - several messages wishing our son a happy feast day. We commemorate St. Blaise today - his feast is pretty well-known because of the common blessing of throats - and several friends had thought of our boy. I was touched.

I gave my own Blaise a hug and told him it was his patron’s feast, which meant little to him, since he’s two. Concepts... READ MORE 


A Drama Only Two People Saw

Ron DiCianni

I adore this depiction of the Presentation, which you can see better here. (Especially if you click the “framed” version.)

It captures the joy of today’s feast so perfectly.

What equally captures the joy of the Presentation is my friend Msgr. Charles Pope’s dramatic account of the scene.

He begins with an explanation of the two rites of the Old Law Joseph & Mary were fulfilling by going to the Temple... READ MORE 


Jolly Old Saint Nick

How are you celebrating today's feast?

Hooray! It’s the feast of St. Nicholas!

I love this feast because it’s a perfect excuse to share some treats with the kids, take out the red tablecloth, and enjoy a “Little Christmas” before the real deal.

This morning, my kids found treats in their shoes, but I am also going to give this cutie-pie bread a try. I intend to attempt to make the Santa hat into a miter, though. If it’s any good, I’ll... READ MORE 


All Ye Saints in Heaven

Pray for Us

Today is the Feast of All Saints!

It’s a good idea to go to Mass today and soak up some of those saintly graces and favors, but because this feast happens to fall on a Monday, it is not a Holy Day of Obligation (for Catholics in the U.S.).

If you’re looking for a cute cupcake idea to celebrate today, try this saintly inspiration from Catholic Cuisine.

If you’d like to make a more traditional treat,... READ MORE 


A Rose from the Flower

and her prayers, too

The feast of the Little Flower is almost over, and in case you didn’t get a rose today, here’s one. I wish I could give every reader a real rose, but virtual will have to do.

St. Therese is my sister’s patroness and ever since I read Story of a Soul in college, I’ve felt an affinity for her too. Today I asked her to say special prayers for all of our Faith & Family readers. I hope that you will feel God’s love through her in an extraordinary way.

Happy Feast of St. Therese!

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History Feast

My family's Memorial Day tradition

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved Memorial Day weekend.

Because it’s the beginning of summer, of course, that wonderful time of sunburned shoulders and skinned knees and playing outside until the mosquitoes chase you in. But also because our hometown has a colonial reenactment feast every year on this weekend. When you’re a kid, can many things be more magical than a reenactment feast?

I certainly... READ MORE 


O, For A Muse Of Fire!

Happy Pentecost!

“The gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is the realization of the prayer and the promise of Jesus Christ: ‘I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!’ “

“The fire of the Holy Spirit is different from the fire of “war and bombs,” from the fires “lit by the dictators of every age.”  It “brings out the best and most genuine in mankind ... our call to truth and love. ”
—from Benedict XVI’s homily for Pentecost


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