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On that New Year’s Day — the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — they envisioned family evening prayer and Sunday rosaries in its sun-drenched space. What they couldn’t have foreseen was the role it would play in the midst of a pandemic that would make their own parish temporarily inaccessible, and how that would help bring them closer to each other and their heavenly Father.

Seems like a good time to update you all on a few of the goings on around here, shop, home, and family-wise . . .

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Jon Richards told his wife a big old lie. He said he was building a shed in the backyard to work on his woodworking. The 69-year-old from Bristol, England, never had any intention of creating a shed. Instead, Richards always planned on building his wife, 68-year-old Muriel, a masterpiece from scratch. It would be the father […]

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(Brendan) Praise God, after four and a half years of work, our little chapel is "substantially complete!" It has been three years since th...

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(Brendan) I thought I'd pass on (after asking her permission) some pictures of a wonderful home chapel sent by Ecclesia Domestica reader Gabrielle. Gabrielle notes that all of the furnishings are from England (she is Anglican, or traditional Episcopal) and everything in the chapel is circa 1880-1900, or a little thereafter. The cross is dated 1879 and the lecturn is 1885. Enjoy!