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Erin Franco continues to provide such great articles on the journey of faith, marriage, and family, in her Humble Handmaid blog, and she recently shared some of the very practical ways that she was able to win the battle of making time for daily individual prayer in this article. Thanks, again, Erin!

Please take a few moments to read Erin Franco's blog post.

Our summer family retreat this year saw 37 families and two priests from Poland enjoying eight grace-filled days in beautiful St. Agustine, FL. The video is long, but if you're wondering about the in's and out's of how something like this works, there's plenty of details here to satiate your curiosity, and the images are beautiful!

Please take a moment to read Erin Franco's beautiful and moving testimony, "How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage," written on her fantastic, nationally recognized blog, Humble Handmaid.

It's easy to get excited when somebody talks about love as "self-gift." We all want to give ourselves, holding nothing back for the one we love. The desire to heroically lay our lives down for another is written into every cell in our bodies...

“I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.” (Psalm 32:8-9)

Monthly couple dialogue--what's the big deal? We dialogue all the time, how hard can this be? Is it even necessary? These were questions we had before we really stepped into our first scheduled dialogue night. Then, like everything else that's important to mar...

When we first started praying together as a family, it felt much more like an effort to nail Jell-o to the wall than any kind of communal spiritual experience. The kids were completely unable to sit still, and it being the end of the day (right before bedtime), our pa...

We've all heard that "the couple who prays together, stays together," and it sounds like such an easy fix to such a huge problem. You pray together with your spouse, you don't get divorced. Done deal. And, it's actually true. It's been studied that couples who pray tog...

I was sitting in Adoration yesterday, having just read the next chapter in Revelation, the book I'm currently working through, and I realized that deep down, I've got this assumption that any digging for a deeper or more personal meaning would leave me disappointed. No...

You know, I used to think I wasn't all that bad at individual prayer, until I was held accountable to doing it every day. I used to think that God and I were pretty close, that we had a good relationship and were capable of some really great conversation, until I reali...