Editor's Notebook
How to help our college-age children keep the faith
When I look back on my freshman year and the quiet, shy kid I was, I
sometimes marvel that I came through it still a practicing Catholic.
College is a new experience for so many of these
kids, and even we parents who have done our best to provide a strong
Catholic foundation end up anxiously wondering if our kids will keep
the values we've tried to teach them, or continue going to Mass, or if
they'll give up their faith. How can we
parents deal with this anxiety? Is there anything we can do to help our
away-at-school kids stay strong in the faith? Read More
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Fresh Herbs, Melons, and Grapes
Let's celebrate the Assumption!
 Eighty-year-old Rosaline
Delzoppo of Cleveland, Ohio, expects nearly 30 guests for a special
buffet dinner this August. The occasion? The
Feast of the Assumption. It is a feast with an uncertain origin - the story of the Assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary is nowhere
to be found in the Gospels, but it appeared in Christian writings from
the fourth or fifth century, and has been celebrated by the faithful
since early Christian times. Read more |
Recipe: Queen's Biscuits
This form of biscotti is an Italian specialty
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Worth Watching in August
Film, TV, Video, and more -
August's top entertainment choices
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Saints of the Month
St. Augustine of Hippo; St. Rose of Lima
Click here for August's saints and feasts
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Quiet Moment
August 2009
A maple seed can't just hang onto a tree and produce another maple tree. A tomato seed can't stay inside the tomato and expect to bring forth another red juicy fruit. Seeds have to be sown.
- JOYCE RUPP, OSM
American writer, present day
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