Catholic Homeschool Support

These Forty Days – while this will be valuable site to visit throughout Lent, I did want to offer the site now because Nissa has the prayers available to perform a Total Consecration to Mary through the method developed by St. Louis de Montfort.

I have been listing homeschool support groups from around the U.S. for 12 years or so. I have now added the ability to add groups for other countries. The ability to add a group outside the U.S. is a bit basic (be sure and include your country in the title of the group or the description), but at least your information can be made available now.

The website is www.catholichomeschool.org.

The winter issue of mater et magistra, the Catholic homeschool magazine, is
now available.

Features:

• Ora et Labora, Mother’s prayer time by Maria Rioux
• We Gotta Get Outta This Place, Field Trip ideas for winter by Mary Ellen Barrett
• Stretching to Fit Exercise Into Your Homeschool Life by Rebecca Huffman
• The Beginning of a Language Arts Curriculum by Laura Berquist

Departments:

• Literature: Don Camillo Books by Ana Braga-Henebry
• Homeschooling Culture: Snow Days by Alice Gunther
• Handcrafts: Spring Hues for the Winter Blues by Mary Gildersleeve
• Liturgical Year: Tea, Tapers, and Turtledoves: A Celebration for the Feast of Candlemas by Alice Gunther (PDF download now)
• Nature Study: Winter Wonders; WInter Reads by MacBeth Derham
• A Day in the Life by Nancy Gerdes
• Student/Graduate: Poetry Parody by Alice Agnes Gunther
• Spiritual Reflection: A Mentor for today’s Catholic Wife and Mother by Cay Gibson
• Resource Reviews
• Unit Study: The Netherlands compiled by Elizabeth Yank

Yeah! I love when evangelization meets technology. So, the Vatican is on YouTube now – http://www.youtube.com/vatican. Where else might we find technology and media being of service to evangelization? How about iBreviary for you iPhone? Available for a small fee of $.099 to run on your phone (I do not have an iPhone or iPod so was unable to run the software – please let me know if you download it).

Facebook is also experiencing an explosion of Catholic users – it can serve as a quiet evangelization tool for those who are a bit more timid in sharing their faith. And, the Pope even introduced a new social networking site for Catholics after World Youth Day (article) at www.Xt3.com.