Our third level of education is the human or liberal — the training of man as man (how to think, how to act, and how to express oneself eloquently with both tongue and pen). A liberal education presupposes the earlier levels. If you can’t stay alive, you won’t be able to train your intellect. [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter XIII. – How a Christian Mother Should Prepare Her Child for Confession.
The sincere confession of sins and faults in union with a sincere sorrow for [...]
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Posted 06 December 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Immaculate Heart of Mary School participated in the twelfth annual Winchester Pickle Festival this past weekend. Whenever the festival does not clash with the Auriesville Pilgrimage, the students perform at the gazebo. This year, the older students also walked in the parade: one of the first marching fiddle groups in history! (There were marching violins [...]
Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter VII. – Of Rewards and Punishments.
A stubborn evil spirit that resists the ordinary means of control, is driven out according to the words of our Lord by [...]
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Posted 25 April 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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This was a skit that was written at the last minute: literally the morning of our congregation’s 60th Anniversary Program. It was a combined effort on the part of one of our school mothers, some of the high-school-aged girls in the community, and the Sisters that had our audience in stitches. It is not polished, [...]
Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter III. – Admonition to the Mother.
Above all things, Christian mother, you yourself should be animated with the love of Christ! You should be a pious disciple, [...]
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Posted 21 February 2009
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[Editor's note: This is an excerpt from: Marriage and Parenthood - The Catholic Ideal, by Rev. Tholmas J. Gerrard, published by Joseph F. Wagner, NY, 1911.]
The young intellect may be made or marred forever, according as its first operations are well or ill directed. The boy is the father of the man. The results of [...]
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