Domestic Churches

My daughter unwittingly challenged me to find joy in simple things and Matt Maher's Alive and Breathing reminded me to praise the Lord.

Businesses and schools shut down and our homes became our offices and classrooms. Parishes closed and our homes remain our churches.

It's best to start introducing a game with the objective and the reward, and it's good to remember the objective of the spiritual life.

My daughters love art! They like to draw, color, and paint so we were excited for a faith formation night at our church reflecting on art.

My daughter grabs the corner of the towel and tosses it off of her face. She squeals and laughs as she enjoys the playful game of peekaboo!

One of the best parts of being a dad is that I have a good excuse for wandering down the toy aisles and buying the coolest toys again. The b

Recently my toddler daughter was fussing during mass, so I carried her to the back of the church. As I walked with her, she rested her he...

The greeting cards have all been sent. The gifts have all been unwrapped. The colored lights have been packed away. The feast has been co...

A new family came into being! My cousin was married, and the wedding made it clear that their family is a domestic church. Before they sa...

My great aunt died and I attended the funeral. As the liturgy began, we gathered around the baptismal font, placed a white pall on the ca...

My niece was baptized this week! As the ceremony began, her friends and family gathered around her at the baptismal font. While the child...

My daughter started kindergarten last week, but it feels like yesterday that I held her for the first time in the delivery room. My wife ...

We recently joined my extended family for a weeklong vacation on a lake in Tennessee. Twenty-five of us gathered in a big house on the la...

It's no secret that I write about domestic churches on this site. When I think of domestic church, the images that immediately come to my...

I recently bought my daughters to a Cinderella ball. To teach them what a ball is, we watched Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella which ...

We recently decorated our home for a birthday party. My daughter rearranged the balloons, so a purple balloon and an orange balloon were ...

My little sister was just beginning to attend mass with us in the church rather than spending the time in the nursery. While she was fair...

The priest speaking at recent church event warned against becoming so busy that we don't take time to notice the beauty of God's creation...

I walked into to mass on Good Shepherd Sunday several minutes late. My youngest daughter had been up crying for an hour the previous nigh...

My daughters have started to use the kitchen pantry as their play house. Yesterday evening when I told them it was time for baths before ...