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Continue reading →: War Room“Prayer is a powerful weapon,” reads the tagline for the newest Kendrick Brothers film, War Room (which was a surprise at the American box office as the no.1 new movie and no.2 overall in its opening week). This is the fifth movie made by Alex and Stephen Kendrick, following Flywheel (2003), Facing…
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Continue reading →: Why Mass? – Part 1Here’s another post from my blog Against the Flow, which launches off from the G. K. Chesterton quote, “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” (G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man, 1925). Please consider following it for email updates…
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Continue reading →: The War of the Vendee movie by Navis picturesHere is a great movie produced by a Catholic homeschoolong family in the US. The story of the Vendee: In 1793, after enduring three and a half years of mounting persecution of the Church by the architects of the French Revolution, a small band of faithful peasants and nobles began…
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Continue reading →: Build your own combustion engine
Today we built an internal combustion engine from a haynes kit we picked up from Aldi. Our first official test run failed due to a miss aligned flywheel. Now we really understand how important this part is. It’s also a good movie Flywheel
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Continue reading →: Who Do You Say I Am?
A post from a new blog I have started called Against the Flow, launching off from the G. K. Chesterton quote, “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” (G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man, 1925).
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Continue reading →: The Feast of St. Joesph
For the feast of St. Joseph we had a home schooling day. We attended 9am Mass at our Parish, and followed it with a procession around the church and the Litany of St. Joseph. We also made some bookmarks with a photo of a stained-glass window of St. Joseph on…
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Continue reading →: Saint Patrick’s Day
View in Browser Fearless Saint Patrick! Today is Saint Patrick’s Day. We have St. Patrick parades all over the country but how many of us know him well? Patrick was simply an awesome man, a powerful saint! And that is because he was truly a man of God. And we…
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Continue reading →: The Giver | Dove Movie ReviewsThe story of The Giver centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas quickly…
