A Fresh Collection of Media Curated Daily for the Whole Catholic Woman
By Noelle Mering
“I got motivated to bring more Catholic devotion into our home. From a faith perspective it just made sense, and from a design perspective you simply cannot go wrong with holy images...they fit in any home, any style (which I am sure is by divine design).”
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My husband Anthony and I have four children, 9, 7, 5, and 2.5. It’s boy-girl-boy-girl and everyone still has a hefty affection for the faith. We moved into our home two years. In that move, we really took stock in the artwork, statutes, and relics, and how to let our new space soak up the Catholicism we so love to imbue into our kids’ everyday life.
Read MoreBy Carrie Gress
I met John Novotny, the creative director of video production at Franciscan University, a couple of years ago. I could tell almost instantly from his accent that he was Canadian and as we drove from the Pittsburgh airport to the Steubenville campus, his story unfolded about how he honed his gift for photography.
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“We loved the idea of raising our family on a farm with so much room for our children to play, learn, and grow,” says wife and mother Katherine Ocello who lives on a farm in a small New Jersey town. “We lived our first year of marriage just outside New York City and we really felt called back home to a simpler and slower way of life.”
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“It’s been over a year since we moved our family from a quaint little home on the outskirts of town to a larger mid-century home near the city’s center. How lovely it has been to gradually fill each corner with beauty and intention, though we still have many untouched plans.”
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Emily Hannon is a writer, wife, and mother of two living in Ohio. She shares details about her home at Christmas time. “I sought out to create a space that made me feel comfortable yet inspired,” says Hannon, “where I would be invited continually to see the beauty in the ordinary. So much of motherhood is messy and mundane, creating a space that radiates peace and beauty is so valuable to me.”
Read MoreBy Megan Schrieber
The idea of home and a baseball game usually conjure up home plate, with a hefty umpire gesticulating quickly that a runner is safe or out. But for one priest, Father Matt Guckin, a trip to the baseball field would imprint a different kind of home on his memory.
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While we were in the throes of babies and toddlers, pregnancies and postpartums, my husband would often walk through the door after work with groceries, pour me wine, and hold the baby in one arm while he made dinner with the other. I remember on some days being too exhausted to reciprocate with much except an ardent feeling and expression of gratitude to him, for him. That image of him still stands in my mind as the image of heroic manliness.
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I caught up with Jenna Wilber to ask her about a favorite place in her home. She is a Catholic convert living in Ojai, California, with her husband and their four children. You can find her blogging at Wilber Huset.
Read MoreBy Carrie Gress
Home. It is a magical word that resonates with all of us. Even those from broken homes, or homes that no longer exist, there is still something in the idea that is sought after. Home is that place where we are meant to be safe, nurtured, known for who we are, to freely live and love.
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