My column published recently in The Catholic Weekly. For Christmas our older children finally got the iPad they had wanted for a while, one for them to share. It had been an item on the older two children’s Christmas wish lists – long lists they weren’t invited to make but left around for us to…
Category: Pitter Patter
Admiring the Baby at Christmas
My column published recently in The Catholic Weekly. After Mass last Sunday, which was Gaudete Sunday, we met a woman carrying her newborn baby boy. Our eldest was delighted, and instantly wanted to touch him. Then, back home, she sighed, “I wish we had another baby”. It is interesting how people are naturally drawn to…
Peace, judgement, culture of life
My column published recently in The Catholic Weekly I’ve been following lately an excellent book study on the Interior Castle by St Teresa of Avila run by author Connie Rossini on her blog Contemplative Homeschool. I highly recommend this Doctor of the Church’s teachings on prayer and the nature of spiritual growth. Like with…
Oh Christmas tree! Thy leaves are so unchanging.
This is my column as published last week in The Catholic Weekly. It’s taken a while but I think I have learned to embrace the mess that comes with having a brood of young children. Things that use to dismay me, like spilt milk at breakfast time, muddy footprints on just-mopped floors, and…
Marilyn Rodrigues 