A Storybook of Saints by the Mother of Four Boys
My little boys love heroes. They love Bilbo and they love Aslan. They love Robin Hood and they...
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Author: Elizabeth Pham
A New Book For Children Explaining Sin Without Being Another “Sin Story”
I wanted to explain why God allows us to sin. So I wrote a story— a story about Adam and Eve— a story about Cain and Abel— a story about Lucifer.
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Why We Take Our Toddler to Daily Mass
When the Mass ritual is as much a part of the daily routine as dinner and bedtime rituals, children are more likely to expect and embrace it. Our toddler asks us every day what time we’re going to Mass. Does that mean he would rather go to Mass than go to the playground? Probably not. But he does look forward to it every day.
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The Home and Our Children’s Need for Beauty
We train our children and ourselves how to seek God. It matters what toy the toddler plays with— it actually matters what it’s made out of and what it looks like! It matters what music the toddler listens to. It matters what plates we eat off of. It matters whether or not our children learn to appreciate beauty.
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How Santa Movies Can Hurt Santa and Everything He Stands For
My husband and I have already decided to emphasize St. Nicholas as the reality and Santa as an (albeit beautiful) myth
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Timeless Christmas Gifts for Toddlers
Here are some gift suggestions for your toddlers at Christmas. I hope some of our readers will find them helpful and, perhaps, save Moms and Dads some time in shopping.
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Re-Hallowing Halloween By Elizabeth Hanna Pham
We also ought to celebrate the spookiness. I don’t mean that we ought to even slightly engage in anything that borders on evil. Those haunted houses aged 18 and up are out of the question, as are horror movies meant to horrify, scenes of torture, occult practices, etc. But there is a playfulness to the dancing skeleton that I believe is healthy and good and Christian.
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Three Popes Inhabit The Lord of the Rings
Sometimes you wonder if Pope Francis really understands what he is getting himself into. Well, I would bet there’s a good chance he often doesn’t — and perhaps we don’t want him to. Perhaps it is his impulsivity, his hobbitness, which allows him to reach out into Mordor, into the deepest and darkest of places — to the people who aren’t initially interested in the Beauty or the Truth.
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Needing Some Clarity About Sexual Sin
In the end, we can have all the homilies and articles and pamphlets explaining the benefits of chastity, but we are failing the flock if we don’t have better explanations regarding the process of reconciliation and returning to chastity. People need to know the uncomfortable details. They need to be told, “if you commit a sexual sin, here’s how you confess it.”
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On Feast Days We Just Do Extra
Most people would be appalled if Christmas was suddenly shifted to the nearest Sunday instead of having a whole day to itself. Either these Holy Days matter or they don’t. If they matter we have to start acting like it and if they don’t matter then we should stop calling them an obligation.
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