Beloved and Blessed

How Do We Learn the Skills of Homemaking?

It seems that we prepare for everything in life other than keeping and managing our homes. How do we learn the necessary skills for building a holy, well-organized, and peaceful home?    Learn More Find tips for homemaking in Kimberly Hahn’s Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart.  In The Catholic Table, Emily Stimpson Chapman shares how food can be an opportunity to share God’s love to our family and friends.  How should we respond to the crises facing our Church? Learn more in Fr. Gerald Murray’s Calming the Storm. 

Home Is the Place of Beauty

We don’t need a lot to make our homes a place of beauty. Kimberly shares ways to make our homes beautiful in order to draw our family’s hearts to each other and to the Lord.    Learn More Find more tips for family life in Kimberly Hahn’s Beloved and Blessed: Biblical Wisdom for Family Life.   How do we live out the faith at home? Learn more in this blog.  Learn how to defend the Pro-Life cause in Speaking for the Unborn: 30-Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments. 

Preparing a Place: Home Organization

Just as Jesus prepares a place for us in His Father’s house, He calls us to prepare a place in our own homes for those we love. Kimberly shares inspiration and practical tips for organization and design.    Learn More Find Kimberly’s full tips for homemaking and organization in Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart.  If homemaking doesn’t feel like an opportunity for grace, read this blog by Emily Stimpson Chapman.  Deepen devotion to the Blessed Mother as a family with Through the Year with Mary. 

Cleaning House

The Scriptures abound with references to cleansing as a process for setting apart for holiness. When we view housework as a way to participate in God’s work of holiness, we will strive to care for our chores well. Learn More Women have a special role to play in standing up for the right to life. Learn how to defend life in Speaking for the Unborn. Find more practical tips for homemaking in Kimberly Hahn’s Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart. Emily Simpson Chapman reflects on the spirituality of motherhood and homemaking in Letters to Myself from the End of the World.

The Heart of the Home

Housekeeping is not primarily about the house work, but about the work of making a house a home. Kimberly shares the special role women play as the heart—and the keeper—of the home.    Learn More Invite Christ into our home with the help of the Blessed Mother. Get children involved with Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children.  Find more inspiration for homemaking in Kimberly Hahn’s Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart. Is our work meaningful? Here are three questions to ask ourselves.  

Letting God Guide Our Time

The difference between being mission-minded and goal-driven is allowing the Spirit to guide our time. Kimberly shares ways to avoid wasting time, being flexible, and how the gifts of Confirmation help time management.   Learn More Spend less than an hour a week in the New Year preparing for the Sunday Mass with The Word of the Lord video series. It’s important to give children the gift of our time. Read more in this blog. Find more practical tips for homemaking in Kimberly Hahn’s Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart

The Communion of Saints

Before becoming Catholic, Kimberly believed the saints were completely cut off from us—but she came to see how close the saints really are and the power of their friendship.   Learn More Grow closer to the Queen of Heaven this year with Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children. Introduce children to all kinds of heavenly friends in Saints Around the World. St. Joseph models for us a life of serving God faithfully in the everyday. Learn more in this blog.

Effective Time Management

Setting and keeping a schedule helps us to spend our time well, even when it feels like we have no time to manage. But it also frees our minds to see the eternal goals of these daily tasks.   Learn More Spend less than an hour a week in the New Year preparing for the Sunday Mass with The Word of the Lord video series. It’s important to give children the gift of our time. Read more in this blog. Find more practical tips for homemaking in Kimberly Hahn’s Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart.

Serving God in the Ordinary

Most of our time is spent living in the ordinary—serving God and family by carrying out the tasks of the day. Kimberly shares her own strategies for creating a schedule and making time for God.   Learn More Spend time as a family with Katherine Bogner’s Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children. Part of managing time is setting aside time for God. Read more in this blog. Work is not a punishment, but our path to fulfillment. Learn more in this episode of Beloved and Blessed.  

Living the Interrupted Life

Prayer doesn’t have to be perfect—making time for the Lord often means working with our season of life. Kimberly shares tips for nurturing our souls in an interrupted life. Learn More Pray and foster a devotion to Our Lady with Katherine Bogner’s Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children. Personal Prayer: A Guide to Receiving the Father’s Love offers advice from two spiritual directors on how to build a deeper relationship with God. What are the types of prayer? Learn more in this blog.