2008 Christmas Gift Guide (for women)
Posted by Danielle Bean in Homemaking on Monday, December 01, 2008 2:00 PM
Stumped for ideas? Never fear! Faith and Family Live! bloggers offer inspired ideas for everyone on your list.
Today, our
Gift Picks for Women:
Rebecca recommends:
*My favorite book find this year: The Gift of Faith.
*Washable suede gloves in a variety of colors
*Support the Christians of the Holy Land by purchasing... READ MORE
Creative Pronunciation
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, December 01, 2008 12:30 PM
“How do you spell ‘chudder’?” Gabby called out the other day while she worked with crayons and paper at the table.
“Cheddar?” Eamon asked.
“No, ‘chudder,’” she repeated.
“Chowder?” he tried again.
Gabby rolled her eyes.
”Chudder,” she said again. “Like when you say, ‘We love each chudder.’”
For Goodness’ Sake
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, December 01, 2008 10:00 AM
The ad at left is running in and on the buses of my hometown, Washington, D.C.
The American Humanist Association is spending $40,000 on a “good, not god” campaign for Christmas.
JoEllen Murphy, however, is not one to read such stories and tsk-tsk the state of things. Instead, she called the local transit authority and found out what it would cost to run a counter ad campaign. She found that with... READ MORE
Advent Day 2
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Monday, December 01, 2008 7:00 AM
Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
-- Romans 13:11-12
Today’s prayer: The Angelus
Today’s task: Let go. Forgive someone for something — even something small — that you have been holding on to.
Today’s treat: Hot Cocoa with cinnamon toast for breakfast
Today’s gift: Think of someone you know who needs encouragement. Call her and offer it today.
Drawing (and all the ones you’ll see this Advent) by Kateri
Diversity
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:16 PM
I love how I’m done! is neck and neck with Are you kidding? in the Christmas shopping poll we have going in the right sidebar.
That’s what we’re all about here at Faith and Family Live!. We are here for every kind of Catholic mom—the extremes on all sides and all the ones in between.
In Thanksgiving
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:39 PM
1. When you have a sister and brother-in-law who agree to pile their bigger-than-yours family into their giant van and make the trek up to Nowheresville, NH for an extended stay, you are blessed indeed.
2. When that same sister stays up late to chat with you and eat too much dessert with you and she knows exactly where you keep the ibuprofen and laughingly reaches for it at the same time you do,... READ MORE
1st Sunday of Advent
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:00 AM
Blessing: O God, by whose word all things are sanctified, pour forth thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who use it may prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Thee abundant graces. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
1st Sunday Prayer: O Lord, stir up Thy might, we beg Thee, and come that by Thy protection we may deserve to be rescued from the threatening dangers of our sins and saved by Thy deliverance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
More Advent background, blessings, and prayers.
Feast of St. Andrew
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, November 29, 2008 5:00 PM
Do you pray the St. Andrew novena for Advent?
So-called because it starts on the feast of St. Andrew, which --sometimes, as is the case this year--coincides with the First Sunday of Advent?
The pious practice is to say it 15 times a day to receive a special grace, but I confess we don’t do that. We just say it together once as part of our family prayer during Advent.
I do think of it often during Advent and at other times during the year when I want to meditate on the mystery of the Incarnation. There’s something about the wording that helps me “enter in” to that mystery right away.
The version I have committed to memory runs: “Hail and Blessed be the hour and moment when the Son of God was born of the Most Pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in piercing cold. By that hour vouchsafe, O Lord, to hear my prayers, and grant my request through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ and of his Most Holy Mother, Amen.”
Image: Two Hearts Design.
Brotherly Love
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:33 PM
Happy New (Liturgical) Year
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Saturday, November 29, 2008 8:00 AM
With tomorrow being the First Sunday of Advent, we celebrate the beginning of our new liturgical year.
I’m a huge resolution-maker, likely because I have so many areas that need improvement in my life! So I always love the beginning of a new liturgical year for the opportunity to reflect upon the past year of my life and to look forward to the future.
Last weekend at Mass, our homilist Msgr.... READ MORE
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