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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Catholic Family Fun | Grandparenting | childhood memories
Discover simple ways for grandparents to create lasting memories with their grandchildren, ensuring love and connection across generations. A few years ago, I saw a special Mother’s Day meme. It basically said that moms are a lot like Moses in that we prepare our people to enter a place where we cannot go and will not be. That’s true to some extent for mothers and children, but it is most certainly true for grandmothers (and grandfathers) and their grandchildren. This became even clearer to me when my latest grandson arrived this year. I certainly intend to love this little one every chance I get. However, if I were to pass away sometime in the next ten years, he would have only a very faint memory of me, if at all. The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children. (Proverbs 13:22a)
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Catholic Family Fun | Parenting | family prayer
Discover 10 simple strategies to bring hope and restoration to your life and the lives of others, from engaging your mind to spreading kindness. If you are feeling overwhelmed, tired, or in need of hope, take a moment to discover 10 simple things you can try today to restore your life and renew your heart. Give yourself permission to pause, take one small step, and rediscover hope—you might even find that you have more hope to share with others, too! This Labor Day, take a break, gather the family, put down the phone, and restore peace and hope through expected pathways. Read on for this Catholic Dad's inspiring and easy-to-follow advice.
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Catholic Family Fun | Family Vacation | Travel | cooking with children
You can take your kids on a trip. You can teach them to cook. You can send them to school. But, why not do all three at once? That's the idea at the core of the EWTN+ series Fork in the Road.
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Assumption | Blessed Virgin Mary | Catholic Family Fun
Catholic Mom contributor Susan Ciancio offers concrete suggestions that families and individuals can use to celebrate the Blessed Mother on any day of the year.
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Catholic Family Fun | Summer Vacation | childhood memories | family life
Looking for practical tips for making summer travel memorable through connection, faith, flexibility, and realistic expectations? Catholic Mom writerShelly Henley Kelly has discovered several practical tips for meaningful family travel that foster connection, deepen faith, and embrace flexibility for unforgettable summer adventures. Summer lies just around the corner, and our family is no stranger to summer travel. We’ve turned work-related trips into mini-vacations, approached summer sports tournaments with the mindset of exploring new places, and even embarked on a multi-generational family trip overseas. In time, we’ve become more purposeful in seeking our faith and making our travel meaningful and memorable. We want trips that strengthen our family connection, deepen our faith, and include experiences everyone can enjoy. These are a few practical tips we’ve discovered over the years. Let us learn how to take a break, turn off the mobile phone to gaze into the eyes of others, cultivate silence, contemplate nature and regenerate ourselves in dialogue with God. (Pope Francis, Angelus 18 July 2021)
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Catholic Family Fun | catholic parenting | summer activities | summer goals
Anne DeSantis looks at simple ways families can naturally weave prayer, Catholic culture, and spiritual formation into busy summer days. Discover fun, simple ways to keep your kids' faith alive this summer through prayer, exploration, and the creation of a Catholic atmosphere at home. Summer is that beautiful time of year when backpacks are emptied, schedules loosen up, and kids finally get space to run barefoot, sip lemonade, and explore. It’s also a season when faith life can unintentionally “go on vacation.” Without school rhythms or parish programs, weeks can slip by without much spiritual structure. Yet summertime is full of moments that invite wonder, gratitude, and connection to God. With a little intentionality, families can actually find that summer offers fresh opportunities to nurture faith in simple and joyful ways.
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