If your son or daughter comes home from school one day sporting a little macrame-style bracelet with bright colored beads called a "Shamballa bracelet", it might be time for a heart-to-heart talk on how not to throw money away on worthless baubles.
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KB writes:
"My friend's mother is a spiritist medium. The mom wants to visit (stay for a while) but my friend is afraid of having her mom over because she knows her mother is a medium and she (my friend) has children at home she wants to protect from any 'spirits' her mother has attached to her. My friend made a mistake by allowing her mom to babysit her newborn then learned that the mom 'gave' the baby some spirit gift. How can my friend remove anything given by the misguided grandma?"How can she honor her mother (who will at some point perhaps need to live with her daughter as she ages), yet protect herself and her family? The daughter is a practicing Catholic."
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June 14th
“When we receive Holy Communion, let us consider that Jesus comes to us as a little baby, and then let us pray that St. Joseph help[s] us welcome him, as when he held him in his arms.”
-St. Joseph Marello