The longing for genuine connection and community has never been more pronounced. Building and nurturing community is an essential endeavor in response to Christ’s call to discipleship. The quality of a community is reflected in the quality of...
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Loneliness and Christmas with Fr. Rob
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast, Fr. Rob and Fr. George Elliot discuss how the Christmas season can be a lonely time for a lot of people. Firstly, priests may experience a particular loneliness when they celebrated multiple liturgies in a short time and...
Christmas Chaos And Connecting With Christ: 5 Tips To Keep Your Sanity And Still Make Mass Meaningful
If there is one thing every Catholic knows, it’s that Christmas Mass is one of most chaotic Masses of the year. Often the parking lot is overflowing and the pews are jam-packed with people. Not to mention the sheer madness that can ensue when trying to get everyone...
Catholic Gifts For Kids Christmas 2023
If you're shopping for Catholic kids this Christmas, this is the list for you! The children in your life will love these gifts and also grow in their faith because of them. Catholic Children's Gifts Mass Kit, Saint Dolls, Reusable Sticker Books, & Much More! |...
Ten Prescriptions for a Strong Family
As a sociologist who has taught college classes on the family, and as one who has written extensively on the subject, it is my considered judgment that strong families are not built on luck or happenstance: it takes work. Moreover, the right prescriptions must...
3 Tips For Talking To Your Protestant Family Members
You’re sitting down for your family Thanksgiving meal. All of your brothers and sisters and some aunts and uncles and cousins have gathered together at mom and dad’s house for this annual feast. You’ve been looking forward to this for weeks. But,...
Catholic Counseling for Kids || Sister Josephine Garrett’s Invitation to Hope
Sister Josephine Garret of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth a Catholic Counselor answers does my child need counseling and so much more! She shares her tips for raising healthy kids in a wounded world and how parents can find hope without falling into deep...
Liturgical Living: Catholic All Year Prayer Companion w/ Kendra Tierney
Kendra Tierney makes liturgical living easy in real life. In her newest book The Catholic All Year Prayer Companion: The Liturgical Year in Practice, she complies Catholic liturgical prayers for you to have a liturgical life and help create a Catholic family culture!...
Exodus 90 – Why Asceticism Will Transform your Marriage
Over 45,000 men have gone through Exodus 90, a spiritual exercise entailing prayer, asceticism, and fraternity lived out in an intense and intentional way. Check out https://exodus90.com/ today, and join us as Drew and Katie Taylor interview Nathaniel Binversie, the...
Family Board Meeting with Mike and Alicia Hernon
Mike and Alicia Hernon from the Messy Family Project discuss with Drew and Katie Taylor the details of Catholic family life! The Family Board Meeting not only helps Catholic Couples learn how to create a family mission statement, they intentionally create a Catholic...
Is There Some Good In Feeling Guilty?
My mom Rosie, may she rest in peace, worked well into her 90’s. It certainly is impressive, isn’t it? Yes indeed. Almost until the day she died, mom was working as a full-time travel agent, for guilt trips that is. These comments, which...
Planning An Intentional Summer With The Messy Family Project
Summer is coming on fast and that means more time with your kids, more time outside, more family time…basically more time! More time together is great in theory, but when we come to it without planning, we can find ourselves sitting around watching a show or listening...
Drew and Katie – KEY to Passing on the Faith to kids, Jackie and Bobby Angel
How to prepare your kids for first communion and first reconciliation!?! In a way that actually helps keep them Catholic.
Drew and Katie – Infertility Awareness with Dr. Marie Meaney
Dr. Marie Meaney discusses her latest book, When Expecting Doesn’t Happen: Turning Infertility into a Journey of Hope.
Making The Most Of Mother’s Day: Queen For A Day…Or Not
As Mother’s Day approaches, if you have a house full of kids, like I did ten years ago, you may be trying to keep expectations low. You doubt as to whether your loved ones will show you appreciation in any significant way on this day traditionally devoted to honoring...
The Power Of A Shared Meal: Faith And Family Come Together When We Break Bread
Those who know me will often hear me speak about “family, faith, and food,” when describing the things which I hold most dear. Some may say that this is more rooted in my culture as an Italian-American than it is in the foundations of my Catholicism, but I don’t agree...
Today’s Teens Need The Saints More Than Ever
A lot happens between the ages of 12 and 14. I call it the magical age, the ethereal age, the age of heroes and anything’s-possible. We’ve all passed through that moment. For some of us it was just another year, for others it was the turning point that made every...
Four Ways To Foster A Child’s Love For The Eucharist
“Alright kids, why do we go to Mass?” We ask a variation of that question every time we arrive at our parish parking lot, usually sweaty and disheveled from wrangling four (soon to be five) children into the van. A mini call-to-action and reminder of why Mass is...
How Prayer Changes When You Become A Parent
I don’t have time to pray I have almost always struggled to feel like I pray “enough.” Believe it or not, the last time that I could definitively say that I didn’t struggle with that was before I had kids. I have 5 kids now and we also have some neurodiversity in the...
“Dog Gone” Is Packed With Life Lessons
911 Lone Star lead actor Rob Lowe stars in Netflix’s latest movie, Dog Gone. It’s one of the first feel-good movies of the year based on a true story of a father and son who search for a boy’s lost dog along the Appalachian Trail. Catholics will enjoy two saintly...
Why These Two Words Are The Cornerstone Of Your Domestic Church
“I do.” These two words are the cornerstone of the domestic church. In the context of the marital vows, these simple words have the power to join man and woman together, to make of two one, with the purpose of leading them together toward eternal life. If these...
3 Ways To Help Your Child Encounter Christ This Christmas
What parents don’t want to give their children the best gifts possible? But beyond traipsing through malls or scrolling online for the perfect present, time might be well spent this Advent season giving kids the Greatest Gift by helping them develop a deeper...
4 Ways To Keep The Eucharist At The Center Of Your Family’s Christmas
“What’s the point of Christmas?” we ask our kids after their 82nd time watching Elf this week. “Jesus!” they shout. Whew! We drill that question into our children every few days during this season of Advent to help them remember the focal...
How To Pray Without Ceasing In The Midst Of Chaos
The Bible says to pray without ceasing, yet how many of us go hours without so much as giving a thought to prayer? In today’s world, it is hard for us to even fathom how it could be possible for us to follow this command. Saint Basil tells us how: “This is how you...
Family Issues? Don’t Let It Ruin Your Holidays (Here’s How!)
A common complaint I hear around this time of year is that people are struggling with family members. Old grudges are present, new additions may not be accepted, some family members may choose not to be present, and tensions can be at an all-time high. When...