October 19, 2010

Hail Mommy: A Requiem for a Lost Mother

Denise Schipani / 11 Comments / family life, parenting, spirituality / Losing a mother /

Last spring, I wrote a post entitled The Spiritual Education of Mommy, Part II, and reflected on a sobering, emotional religion class I’d just attended. To recap: As a group, the Monday night religion classes (kids and adults) were told about an upcoming annual four-mile walk/run, organized by a father in the parish whose son, […]

April 13, 2010

Having Faith: The Spiritual Education of Mommy, Part II

Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / family life, spirituality / faith, religious education, spirituality /

I was thinking a couple of weeks ago about a post I wrote back in November, which for reasons I didn’t articulate at the time, I titled Having Faith: The Spiritual Education of Mommy, Part I. Why Part I? At the time I typed without thinking about it. I must have figured I’d have more […]

November 17, 2009

Having Faith: The Spiritual Education of Mommy, part I

Denise Schipani / 11 Comments / family life, spirituality / faith, religious education, St. Elizabeth of Hungary RC Church /

The boys and I have just begun our second year of religious education at our church. Remember, if you are/were Catholic or grew up with Catholic friends, the old CCD, or Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, a.k.a. a weekly class either in a parents’ home or at the church, that pretty much ended after Confirmation in […]