Celebrating Your Child’s “Name Day”

Celebrating Your Child’s “Name Day”

Maesta by Duccio di Buoninsegna (1311) *This is an updated version of my 2016 article! August is “name day month” in my home, because all of my children have patron saints whose feast days fall in the month of August: Lydia (August 3), Dominic (August 8), Claire...
Finding Light in the Dark Times of Parenting

Finding Light in the Dark Times of Parenting

From today’s Gospel: “Where I am going, you cannot come” (John 13:33). Jesus tells his disciples that he is leaving them. Those primal human fears: ABANDONMENT; ALONENESS. The disciples respond with panic, confusion, and division. A darkness descends upon them....

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