This kid. He is the youngest of five and knows very well that his is a privileged position. We both love the days that he’s home from preschool and we hang out together. These are the days he tells me, “Mummy, it’s just you and me and a cup of tea.” He was sick with…
Author: Marilyn Rodrigues
I'm a journalist and married mother of five. I live in Sydney.
Great gifts for children’s First Holy Communion, Confirmation
From my Catholic Weekly column We’re well and truly into First Holy Communion season, judging by the smattering on my Facebook feed of photos of people’s children in white dresses and veils or suits and angelic smiles. Prompted by this, and a reader who wrote in asking for suggestions of catechetical resources as gifts for…
Musings about sausages and people
Image by Kirsty TG I was cooking sausages yesterday as part of our dinner (it seems a stretch to call it cooking, though). These were quite fancy pork sausages ‘with kakadu plum and lemon aspen’ no less, but cheap, marked down to nearly nothing because they were on the cusp of expiring. Now I don’t…
A spirituality of motherhood and creativity
From my Catholic Weekly column, which I was recalling today. I still very much feel that this is true about the creativity of motherhood, or at least, my experience of it. Though we live very different lives, I could relate to what the celebrated Australian artist Michael Leunig described about the way that he is able…
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