Tag: family

• Mother’s Day – A Matter of Family Values

  In my country, we have Mothering Sunday.   That’s today. It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, if anyone is interested in the jigsaw puzzle of the Christian calendar, and it remembers St. John of the Ladder, or St. John Climacus (Climacus – climb – ladder; gettit?  Don’t you just love Latin?).  It was once called Laetare […]

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  March 15, 2015

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• Suffer the Little Children…

  Martin viewed the children with suspicion.  He was suspicious of all children who called at his home, especially in the evening just after dusk, and particularly when they rang his doorbell twice before he had a chance to answer the door.  Now he was unsure who to watch the more carefully;  the child in a […]

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  December 19, 2014

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• From a Mother on Behalf of Her Children

  I have few complaints. My home is warm and comfortable, I want for very little.  My children are well fed, intelligent, and making their own way in life.  I like to think I raised them well.   I have taught them to contribute. We are shy and retiring as a family, and not very sociable I’m […]

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  January 25, 2014

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