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Living Without School: We need it because...
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Monday, November 15, 2010. We need it because. At Mass with a friend recently. On the way home, we talked about th. E new translation of the missal. Oh, I suppose we need a new translation," said my friend. "We get bored and don't pay attention to the old so something new is good.". And I said that this comment was exactly why we need the new translation. not. Because we need change but because we need to return to the use of more sacred language, not. Okay, so what exactly do I mean? One could say that ...
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Living Without School: Lowest Common Denominators
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Saturday, January 01, 2011. I teach mathematics. Do you remember the lowest common denominator? The least but common multiple for a set of denominators. There is s trend in society, in communities and, yes, in churches for the theory of lowest common denominator to apply. Standards and tastes and habits drop to the lowest standard acceptable to most, to the most common amount of people. The lowest common denominator in liturgy is, in fact, a disservice to the faithful . They miss out on the opportuni...
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Living Without School: The Homily..A Fairy Tale
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Monday, November 22, 2010. The Homily.A Fairy Tale. And so it comes time for the homily during a parish Sunday mass. The congregation has heard the Word of God proclaimed. Does Father walk to the ambo to deliver his homily? As the faithful sit, waiting to hear an exposition, perhaps on the readings of the Sacred Scripture that day, they see Father moving away from the sanctuary, not towards the ambo but to the people. A fairy tale perhaps? Why am I the lone wolf crying in the wilderness? 65 The homily is...
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Sierra Highlands: Montessori, Unschooling, Trusting the Process
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005. Montessori, Unschooling, Trusting the Process. Why is life so complicated? Why can you find several utterly contradictory opinions on every issue to do with parenting and education? It's not just about religion vs unreligion, either. Here are some comments across the religious continuum, all of which make sense to me and tie in with my experience. And yet, and yet. Alicia wrote a very good post on Fallen Nature vs Let the Children Come to Me. From Joyce Fetteroll's site. I thi...
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Living Without School: If I could tell a new homeschool mum one thing...
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Monday, June 11, 2012. If I could tell a new homeschool mum one thing. If I could tell a new homeschool mum one thing, it would be. to give it ( whatever it is) Time. Time The biggest secret in homeschooling/unschooling. Time for a child to mature, so that the boy who hates writing at age six. Why do I have to do this") is just given time to mature, no pressure to write, just sharing books together until one day he finds his voice and writes and blogs. Time has been my homeschooling secret. Regardles...
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Living Without School
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Sunday, September 18, 2011. One of the feast days this week was that of St John Chrysostom. Pope Benedict XVI, in 2007, on the anniversary of the saint's death, wrote of St John and the Divine Liturgy. St John understood that the Divine Liturgy situated the believer spiritually between his life on earth and the heavenly reality which was promised to him by the Lord. These sacred rites, says St John,? Transcendent. Between heaven and earth. Out of the ordinary experience. Exceptional. The need for sacred,...
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Living Without School: Liturgy as catechesis
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Sunday, June 05, 2011. If one modifies the liturgy, however, instead of making the liturgy "more meaningful" one runs the risk of changing the meaning altogether and of despoiling the wealth already contained within the sacred liturgy.". So I am quoting myself. Pathetic I know. But a quote from one of my recent essays, for the Liturgy and Life unit. And why am I quoting myself? Not because I am fabulous (satirical laugh) but because the quote came to mind. Because it's June. As a new Catholic in the 1990...
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Sierra Highlands: Moving....
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Monday, June 01, 2009. I'm going to move to a new blog address. It's still on blogger, just a different blog and different name. Maybe you caught my post before I deleted it trying to work out why and if. I'm still not exactly sure. But in moving blogs once in a while, I'm in some good. I resemble that remark. ;-). Bookmarking your new address. :). Are you looking at me? Off to add your new address to my feed reader. And thanks Amy and Steph for being good role models ; D! Spunky Homeschool has an articl...
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Sierra Highlands: Freedom and Giving
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Friday, May 29, 2009. The subject of freedom and self-donation has been coming up in my life recently, so I want to link to this article at the First Things site that someone sent to the Unschooling Catholics list. The Freedom of Heaven and the Freedom of Hell. Aquinas says to Dante (in the Divine Comedy). Of the Lord’s grace, which lights the flames of true. Love and by love still grows in eminence,. With such multiplication shines in you. It leads you up these stairs no man may take. I can't find it on...
