A Focus on Almsgiving for Great Lent 2021

I just finished reading Fr. Evan Armatas’ Toolkit for Spiritual Growth: A Practical Guide to Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving and highly recommend it. Especially as someone born and raised in the church, I think I can forget some of the why’s of our Faith’s ways and get caught up in the route doing without the true spirit of the task behind it. Or sometimes I get caught up in the not doing.…

2 Parables, 2 People & 1 Vital Life Learning – Building up to Great Lent

I absolutely love teaching. I never knew this about myself and I’m not sure how far it extends with other people’s children (although I teach 2 others in our homeschool pod and enjoy it tremendously),  but I find that what I learn in and while teaching and the process of inquiry and discovery is so fullfilling. I teach my children’s Sunday school and we generally focus on the weekly gospel – although…