Brendan, the Navigator and the pious Christopher Columbus. Will she cheerfully accept what she knows is God’s will in this situation?īrendan, The Seafarer: It’s Brendan’s birthday and he is fighting pirates, steering ships and wielding swords! He learns of St. Two Tea Parties and a Sacrifice: Meet Agnes, a fourteen-year-old Catholic girl, who is challenged to make a sacrifice. How does he overcome this obstacle and what lessons does he learn along the way? Joseph and the Bow Shoot: Meet Joseph, a Catholic boy who wants to enter the Parish Bow Shoot but doesn’t have a bow. The ages they are appropriate for are approximately 4 – 12 years.Ĭeline’s Advent: Take a walk through Advent as Celine and her family prepare for the coming of the Baby Jesus at Christmas! You will enjoy celebrating the beauty of the season with Celine as she helps her mom with the special traditions and activities that make the liturgy come alive in their home! Her “peanut gallery” consists of a mouse named Percy and some charming and delightful Christmas Angels! They are sure to capture your heart! These are full-color books sure to capture the heart of your children.Įach book is about 35 pages of full-color pictures that tell a lovely Catholic story. They are about everyday situations in the life of a Catholic family…Tales about home, friends, fun, sacrifice, prayer, etc. I wrote them especially for my grandchildren….and am sharing them with yours.Ĭatholic Hearth Stories are tales filled with traditional, old-fashioned values. The following two books are to help you parents with those little things….They are story books from my new little series, “Catholic Hearth Stories”. These are gold nuggets that will live on in your children’s lives. It is so much worth the effort! The signs of the crosses, kneeling to say prayers, dipping fingers in holy water, laying fresh flowers at the statue of Our Lady, etc., etc. We often don’t realize the impact of those lessons, those Catholic lessons, that are taught each day to our children. The next time you are troubled about your husband’s faults, say to yourself, “He has this fault but he is better than me in other ways.” You may be tardy and he may be prompt.īecause your faults are different, you may focus on his and overlook your own. On the other hand, you may be critical whereas he is inclined to be forgiving.
He may be forgetful and you may be alert. He may be disorganized and messy, whereas you may be neat and orderly. One thing that makes it difficult to overlook a fault in a man is that his faults are different from yours.
Instead, learn to appreciate the things which really count. If you want a good marriage, don’t count the worth of these things in your favor, or flaunt them before him, making him feel inferior. With this view of yourself, you may take the initiative to shape him up to your standards. You may come from a better family background, one with more money and status. You may consider yourself more intelligent, better educated, more skilled, alert, careful, clever, or successful than he. Similar to self-righteousness is a feeling of superiority. The pain of genuine humility doesn’t agitate or afflict the soul rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.” “Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be it comes with peace, delight, and calm.
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For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.” “The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.” “Do you wish to be great? Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. Would you like it if he looked down on you for not measuring up to the qualities he holds so dear? If you are thinking this way, I want you to remember that he has qualities that you are lacking. It’s easy to fall into this trap and to replay it over and over again in our minds. A few thoughts about our attitude….are we humble, or are we proud?ĭo you ever have this feeling that you are better than your husband? Do you find you look down on him because he doesn’t quite measure up to your expectations of whatever……orderliness, manners, managing finances, education, etc.
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