Homeschool – History I absolutely love history! Unfortunately, this subject is often (read: almost always) bogged down with anti-Catholic bias. Thankfully, starting in 2016, a new History series appeared on the market, published by Tan Books! The Story of Civilization (Volumes I, II, III, and IV), by Phillip Campbell. Thankfully, I discovered this series, which …
Khrystos Voskres! Christ is Risen! Today we are discussing Bright Week, the “one joyous day” that begins Easter Morning and ends on Saturday. If you are looking to read about Easter Sunday (including what to put in your Easter Basket), check out our previous years’ article here. Bright Week is one joyous day in our …
Glory to Jesus Christ! Hello everyone, as you may have noticed there are a few things “wrong” with the blog. After a webhosting and domain transfer debacle, needless to say, we have a few things to set to rights. Please know that we are actively aware of these issues and working on them …
On a YouTube video about answering the question “Why I Have So Many Kids,” one mom joked that it was because she liked to eat a lot of birthday cake. There were some other good comedic answers, but that is the one that sticks out to me now. Sometimes I like to think about how …
St. Benedict is on of my favourite saints, so this year I am doing an article for his feast day. We celebrate Benedict of Nursia on his death-day, the 21st of March (547 AD). Although Ukrainian Catholics on the new calendar celebrate him on the 14th. He was a monk in the 6th century, and …
What do you think of when you hear prayers for preschoolers? Do you think of “Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here?” Or perhaps “thank you Lord for this beautiful day, for home and care and happy play.” Well, that is not what this article is about. We are …
On the 9th of March we celebrate the feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste. And who are these Martyrs? Good question… because the truth is, I don’t know! Or, at least, I didn’t until it came time to write this week’s article. So here we go! Some true research from the depths. When the …
Welcome to the start of our Homeschooling Series! In this series we are going to cover our plans (as well as various optional sources) for teaching our children. The series will be divided by subject. This is because how we teach a subject is not going to change much between grade one and two (for …
If you have been following the blog closely, you may have noticed we recently started up The Prayer League of The Holy Innocents. This prayer league includes a daily prayer for children in the womb, and for an end to infanticide and abortion. There is a printable of this prayer in our ByzShop here. Prayer …
In this episode of The Orthodachs Show, TheBadgerDad goes solo to recap his research on the Byzantine connection to Our Lady’s apparitions at Fátima and to share the canons of the Synod of Petrograd of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, concluded on May 31, 1917. Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Father and Head of the worldwide …
