Carpe diem! Now is the time…get ready to remember more, do better at your practice sentences, and even like your Latin studies. How? With clever use of strategies and tools, of course! Organize your mind and your material, deeply encode new concepts, and actively use the vocabulary, word parts, and rules that you learn. These…
Just 3…wait until you hear how important they are. So, little things are often the biggest things–especially in the spiritual life. (Of course St. Therese and many, many others would tell you that.) This is now the staple of my morning and evening prayer routine. I always have time for three Hail Marys no matter what…
Does it matter what papal documents said before the Second Vatican Council? I guess it depends on your point of view. In my point of view, yes–they are at least as important today as they were when they were written, and therefore deserve careful reading and implementation. One of them from the mid-20th century is…
What our time needs now is conversions. Lots of grace, and lots of conversions, repentance and amendment of lives. Recently I discovered an aid for the faithful in calling down these graces: the Green Scapular, also known as “The Badge of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” What a beautiful gift from Heaven! The Green Scapular…
When it comes to learning Church Latin, we all should imitate what we did as babies. Be a baby listening to our Holy Mother, the Church, at prayer, and learn Latin as you go. I’ve written some lessons I hope can help you learn Latin while praying along with the Church’s ongoing prayer. Many posts…
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants. –Outline of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton
If you’re ready to prepare for the beautiful liturgical season of Christmastide by learning traditional chants for this time, you’re in the right place. It’s never to early to begin practicing these chants, keeping a good Advent season the meanwhile! (Speaking of which–for Advent chants, please go here.) The chants for Christmas clearly inspired the…
I majored in psychology. It was fortuitous that around the time I was in college, the sub-field of “Positive psychology” was coming to the fore. Like many people, I am much more interested in the good things about life than the bad things, and it was energizing to study experimental data on people that were…
If you are at all intimidated by the idea of starting your students with Latin, know that it will be easier than you might be fearing, but you’ve got to un-think one thing that you’ve been thinking.
Anyone can learn to chant. It’s important to remember that for centuries very young boys learned to sing this by ear, simply by hearing it over and over. Now that we have so much technology to help us, anyone anywhere with the internet and the ability to read can learn chant. Lately (for several months…
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