From my column published recently in The Catholic Weekly. One line has really stuck with me from Pope Francis’ wonderful opening speech to the Synod on the Family which closes on this Sunday. It’s the one about the folly of the gratuitious nature of marriage. He said: “Indeed, only in the light of the folly…
Category: Pitter Patter
Humility Is A Gift
My column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. “Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven,” this was the Gospel I heard two Sundays ago while Isaac, our two-year old, slept warm and heavy on my lap. I get it. Toddlers are so unassuming, so forgiving, so transparent, so…
I need one-on-one time with my daughter as much as she needs it with me
One of my recent columns in The Catholic Weekly: My nine year old daughter and I recently spent a weekend away at a mother and daughter camp organised by parents at her school. We met up with girls from her year and their mothers, and spent two days basically having fun together. My daughter loved…
Parenting fails and God’s mercy
My column published last week in The Catholic Weekly. Photo by Schlomit Wolf. I’ve had my fair share of ‘parenting fails’, as all parents probably do. I’ve left children at school until late in the afternoon, only realising I had to pick them up when they rang me from the office to ask where I…
Marilyn Rodrigues 