Modeling Our Lives After St. Gerard Majella
By Susan Ciancio We often pray to discern the will of God, but do we teach our children to do so? Today is the Feast of St. Gerard Majella—a wonderful saint who is a model of obedience, virtue, and piety. His life is a great example for us and our children of how to...
Pro-Life Lessons to Help You Celebrate October
By Susan Ciancio Welcome to October! We have some positive reasons to celebrate throughout the entire month. Not only is October Respect Life Month, but it’s also Down Syndrome Awareness Month and the Month of the Rosary. There has never been a better time to help...
Can Your Child Defend Life?
By Susan Ciancio The world seems like a scary place right now, especially to our children. Everywhere you turn, news stories offer little in the way of positivity. But if you look closely, there is also hope and beauty amidst the chaos of COVID, the riots, racism,...
People Come in All Shapes and Sizes, but We Are All God’s Children
By Susan Ciancio How do we teach our children to be kind and to treat others well? They must see us treating others well. We have to exhibit kindness. They must hear us talking kindly about—and to—others. They must see us performing acts of kindness with a generous...
Our Beautiful Mother Mary and the Miracles at Fatima
By Susan Ciancio “I come from heaven.” On May 13, 1917, Lucia Santos, age 10, was tending sheep with her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco Marto, in a little town outside of Fatima, Portugal. Jacinta was just seven years old, and Francisco was nine. Suddenly,...
Mary’s Assumption into Heaven
In 1950, Pope Pius XII wrote Munificentissimus Deus—an apostolic constitution that defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. The Holy Father stated: “By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we...
St. Damien: A True Pro-Life Hero
By Susan Ciancio Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently stated that the presence of a statue of St. Damien of Molokai in the Hawaiian capitol building is indicative of what a “white supremacist culture looks like.” Her ignorant and hurtful words, especially...
Endangered and Vulnerable
By Susan Ciancio At the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast, St. Teresa of Calcutta said: “I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we...
Do You Know These Saints?
By Susan Ciancio It can be hard to see connections between the lives of the saints and our current culture, but we can make some pretty good assumptions about how the saints would have tackled the evils of our day, including things like abortion and euthanasia. Below...
Building a Culture of Life with St. Gianna Molla: Inspiring Quotes to Live By
By Susan Ciancio Building a culture of life includes taking care of those who need help, being a voice for the voiceless, putting others before yourself, and treating others with great love. Gianna Beretta Molla did all these things and more. Gianna was born in Italy...
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