Pater Familias

"Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love….when harmony prevails, the children are raised well, the household is kept in order, and neighbors, friends, and relatives praise the result. Great benefits, both of families and states, are thus produced. When it is otherwise, however, everything is thrown into confusion and turned upside-down.” --St. John Chrysostom

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

How To Discern A Move

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 State Farm had a great commercial  a few years ago that almost every dad could relate to. It starts with a young man poolside with his frie...
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Monday, June 13, 2022

A Christian Response To Abortion Advocates

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  Because I work in a secular and largely left-leaning environment, I don't have the benefit of people often having a Christian worldvie...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

When You Are Sure You're Right

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 Last week we attended a different traditional parish for Sunday Mass. All the rubrics were the same, but there were parts where we were use...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Make Do Or Do Without

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  I think everyone just about now is feeling the pinch of inflation and the rising price of just about everything. Although we have a handfu...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

The Principal of Subsidiarity In A Marriage

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  A few months ago I stumbled across a critique of Stephanie Gordon's (wife of Youtuber Tim Gordon, Rules For Retrogrades) book Ask Your...
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The Grace Of Being Pruned

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  I have eight fruit trees in my backyard that I have planted over the last several years, all in various states of development. I don't...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Church Is Hierarchical For A Reason

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The other night we watched a movie called The Whale , which was historical fiction of the account told by a cabin boy of the Essex in 1820 w...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Not Your Truth

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 Some truths need to be stated unequivocally. When you teach your children tolerance, that tolerance should not extend to undermine the trut...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

"Be Who You Are And Be That Well"

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  The other day I was chatting with a buddy in the Air Force as he was at the mechanic; I asked him what kind of car he had taken in--it was...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Vigil of Pentecost And The Poverty Of Man

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 We left the house at 5am, trying to time our 7 hour drive to hit a First Saturday Mass halfway. A friend let me know the Institute (of Chri...
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I am a happily married 46 year old Catholic father of three. I am not a professional Catholic. I am a reluctant author. I am just an ordinary guy trying to get his family to Heaven, and leaving some breadcrumbs along the way. "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone." --St. Francis of Assisi
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