It’s the last day of my blog tour, and guess what? I’m going to do something different! If you’ve been around my blog for a while, you have seen several reviews of books by Sarah Reinhard. Sarah and I are both write-at-home Catholic moms writing resources to help parents raise kids with a vibrant faith.…
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers (TLL Review and Excerpt)
This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes is written not only for use with children, but to help form the faith of the adults who work with them. Today’s excerpt, from Chapter 7: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God (Celebrating the Saints), comes from the section for children.…
Read MoreBlessed Are the Clean of Heart (TLL Review and Excerpt )
This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes is written not only for use with children, but to help form the faith of the adults who work with them. Today’s excerpt, from Chapter 6: Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God (Sacraments and Private Devotion), comes from the section for adults.…
Read MoreThe Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit (TLL Review and Excerpt)
This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes is written not only for use with children, but to help form the faith of the adults who work with them. Today’s excerpt, from Chapter 3: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land (the gifts and fruits of the Spirit), comes from the section for…
Read MoreWelcome Baby Jesus
In these last few days before Advent begins (does anyone else feel discombobulated because there’s an extra week after Thanksgiving?), I’d like to take the time to introduce you to a great little book written for young families: Welcome Baby Jesus, by Sarah Reinhard of Snoring Scholar fame. Liguori promotes Sarah’s book and mine as…
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I’ve been methodically reading through my book list this year, and I want to share some of the highlights today: The Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins A young adult novel set in a future North America that has been devastated and reorganized into a brutal society that takes reality TV to a whole new level: teens forced…
Read More7 Quick Takes, vol. 78
1. I have just finished reading “Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther” this week. It started out somewhat questionable, to be honest. The first few “entries” weren’t written very well. I thought I was headed down the poorly-written Christian literature route, but I gave it a few more pages since the opening entries were…
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Kathleen M. Basi 