Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Chari
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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 1:57am | IP Logged Quote Chari
I wrote this about a week ago.....I wanted to share it with you........here is the beginning of it.....and the end. It was pretty long, for me. The rest is on my blog, under my name.



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Earlier this week, I was pondering about a post of our upcoming Christmas Literature Evening, and I realized:

We live a LITERATURE-BASED LIFE.

I guess I always kind of knew that, but it just really struck me this morning.

Our homeschooling is literature-based: historically, scientifically, language arts, religion and sometimes math. This means we hardly ever use a textbook. We learn through our literature, or from primary sources.

******************middle part at blog, see below

I asked Matthew, 17, if he felt we lived a literature-based life. He said, "I guess so." I asked him, "How?" He says, whatever I am reading at the time, affects my thoughts and real-life experiences.

I asked Anne, 19, the same question. She said, "No, we live a faith-based life, literature-saturated." I must admit she is right. Good for her to bring me back down to ground. :) But, it seems that a faith-based life, is going to be one spent in looking for the beauty in all things...from the places we go, to the things we see, to the books we read.

So, what do you all think? Am I bibliophile....or what? :) Are you?

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How about you? I know many of you can relate.

I hope to write about my Christmas Literature Evening soon. PLEASE pray the snow slows down long enough for people to safely arrive here, and get home tomorrow evening. Now, back to planning MORE literature in our lives.   


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Posted: Dec 31 2007 at 7:08pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
Lovely, Chari.

I think *my* life is literature based.    I am influenced more by the literature I read than by the non fiction. The things we do as a family often reflect books I have read, read as a child, am reading....

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