Habemus Papam!!
Well, that was a short conclave!! Thank You, Holy Spirit! waiting with bated breath for the Pope’s appearance, ready for screenshots I don’t know what we were expecting, but we sure didn’t expect the...
View ArticleYena’s Curriculum (11, 7th grade) 2013-2014 / The Curriculum Planning Post
Haha. I was typing up the title for this post and had to stop and call Dad and Yena who are out on a biking trip (it’s 7:35 am). I think I made a mistake somewhere along the line. When I was 11, I was...
View ArticleWhere I Get My Pro-Life News and Commentary
A friend, Francis B., requested a list of my sources for pro-life news. So, in no particular order, my favorites: General Crisis Magazine First Things Catholic World Report MercatorNet NewAdvent.org...
View ArticleTen Reasons to Leave Facebook in 2017
Image: Wikimedia Commons Just to be clear right off the bat, I’m not leaving Facebook, not yet anyway. I’ve finally found a good balance between being on Facebook and fasting from it on a regular...
View ArticleChrist’s Teachings Are the Vegetables Of Our Lives
Image: Toa Heftiba One of the reasons I love cooking so much is that it’s often meditative for me. Peeling, chopping, mincing, crushing, tearing, and sometimes tearing up (those blasted onions)…. The...
View ArticleChristina Mamaril on Chasing Beauty
When I first got on Instagram, a friend dutifully warned me that it was the place for shallow people, mostly celebrities and celebrity-wannabes, social climbers, those with a materialistic bent. So I...
View ArticleOf Suffering, Safety Nets and Kings
Image: Pietro Jeng Over the past few weeks, PinayVoices has been hopping because of our posts on divorce. It can be draining. It’s exhausting to talk to unhappy women who, blinded by anger, can’t get...
View ArticleHow to Trust Like Mary
Tradition holds that Mary was in the midst of prayer when the Archangel Gabriel came with his message. At that moment, her mind, her soul, her heart, her very body, was prepared to receive. “Hail, full...
View ArticleA Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers
We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time....
View ArticleBook Review: Homeschool Moms at the Feet of Jesus
This is a book review for Homeschool Moms at the Feet of Jesus by Teresa Gumap-as Dumadag, for which I received a preview copy. Homeschool Moms at the Feet of Jesus is a short but pithy book that will...
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