Evenings don’t have to feel chaotic 🌙✨
With the right routines, you can turn dinnertime rush and bedtime battles into calm, connected and smoother nights for the whole family. Discover simple habits that make evenings easier for everyone.
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15 hilarious parenting comics that are almost too real
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Quote of the day, 25 October: Teresita Cepeda
Teresa is writing a letter. If you could see the faces she’s making while writing you would be delighted. However badly our fortunes go I don’t allow them to tell her anything. Today is January 30.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Discalced Carmelite translator, editor, and scholar Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh tells us that this autograph fragment—presumably written in 1578 to Padre Jerónimo Gracián from Avila—gives us an intimate glimpse into the tender relationship between Teresa and her niece, ‘Teresita’, Sister Teresa of Jesus Cepeda.
Saint Teresa describes a little scene: she watches as Teresita, about eleven years old, makes her first attempts at writing. This detail is significant. In 1935, the international literary quarterly Books Abroad invited the famed Ecuadorean writer Víctor Manuel Rendón, to write an article on Ecuadorean literature. He chose ‘Women Writers of Ecuador’ as his topic and made a bold claim:
Who was the first woman writer of Ecuador? Teresa de Jesús Cepeda (1566–1610). Her father was a brother of Santa Teresa de Jesús. She was born in Quito but was taken at an early age to Spain and educated in the Carmelite Convent over which her glorious aunt presided. The latter said of her: “She has the disposition of an angel, and is a brilliant conversationalist; she tells stories of the Indians and of the sea better than I could tell them.” All that we have of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda is her letters; but they are written with consummate grace and in the purest Castilian, abounding in profound ideas in which discretion, strength, modesty, and piety vie with one another, like reflections of the divine intellectual gifts of the Saint of Avila.
Discalced Carmelite historian Father Iván Mora Pernía places Teresita’s date of birth as 25 October, relying upon the research of Teresian biographer Father Salvador de la Virgen del Carmen, OCD.
Father Mora recalls the words of St. Teresa’s brother Lorenzo, Teresita’s father. In July 1576, while Teresa remained in Toledo at Father Gracián’s direction, Lorenzo traveled to Avila and presented his daughter to the nuns at the Carmel of St. Joseph, saying: “I’m giving you the best gift I brought back from the Indies.” Teresita had already charmed the sisters in Seville, and now she would make St. Joseph’s her home.
Rendón, Víctor M. “Women Writers of Ecuador.” Books Abroad 9, no. 4 (1935): 380–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/40077015.
Featured image: Portrait of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda by Fray Juan de la Miseria (Italian, 1526–1616), the same artist who painted the only definitively authentic portrait of St. Teresa of Avila in 1576. The painting is located at the Convento de las Teresas in Seville and depicts the young Discalced Carmelite nun known as “Teresita,” niece of St. Teresa of Avila. Image credit: © Jl FilpoC / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
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📚 The Berry Pickers by: Amanda Peters
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years
"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book
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My favorite protest sign of all the ones I've seen in my feed, from the latest #NoKings2 protest.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
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Quote of the day, 17 October: St. Teresa of St. Augustine
See God’s will in everything and accomplish it even if you don’t understand it. This advice echoes what Christ said to Peter at the washing of the feet: “What I am doing, you do not know now, but afterward you will understand” (Jn 13:7).
See everything through the lens of God’s will. Don’t ask why he gives you such a strong attraction to a state in life to which he doesn’t call you. These are the secrets of [divine] providence that we’ll understand one day and for which together we’ll bless his infinite mercy—I have confidence in this.
Yes, dearest child, when we’re reunited in our heavenly homeland, we’ll discover the value of the sacrifices we were able to make. The more keenly felt they were, the more merit and glory they’ll have gained for us.
Prepare yourself, then, as a docile daughter to the guidance of the best and most tender of fathers—for whatever he pleases to do with you. If he requires you to go prove your love for him in the midst of your family, obey with the simplicity of a child. I hope that the good God will let himself be moved by your submission and will yield to your desires. Try to have only one desire: that of pleasing him…
Saint Teresa of St. Augustine
Letter to Mademoiselle de Grand-Rut
9 October 1789
Morgain, S 2023, Les Carmélites Martyres De Compiègne : Pour La Paix De L’église Et De L’état, Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, Éditions du Carmel, Toulouse.
Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: Frédéric Bazille, Réunion de famille (Family reunion) 1867, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Image via POP (Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine), Ministère de la Culture, France.
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Many moms quietly shoulder 100% of baby care because dad works, but does it have to be that way? 🤱
True parenting is a team effort, and sharing responsibilities strengthens both relationships and family wellbeing.
✨ Read the full article: https://zurl.co/6jDlu
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Traveling with Dad always brings surprises. At 3 a.m., the motel room suddenly lights up like high noon. I shoot up, bleary-eyed, and there he is—wide awake, smiling, and asking, “Oh, are you up?” as if we’ve both just had a full night’s rest. I mumble something about it still being the middle of the night, but by 4 a.m., he’s at it again—lamps blazing, ready to start the day. It’s equal parts exhausting and endearing. You’ve got to laugh, because sometimes that’s the only way to stay awake and sane.
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📚 Home Is Where the Bodies Are by: Jeneva Rose
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing bat...
https://bookblabla.com/book/home-is-where-the-bodies-are
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Quote of the day, 25 October: Teresita Cepeda
Teresa is writing a letter. If you could see the faces she’s making while writing you would be delighted. However badly our fortunes go I don’t allow them to tell her anything. Today is January 30.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Discalced Carmelite translator, editor, and scholar Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh tells us that this autograph fragment—presumably written in 1578 to Padre Jerónimo Gracián from Avila—gives us an intimate glimpse into the tender relationship between Teresa and her niece, ‘Teresita’, Sister Teresa of Jesus Cepeda.
Saint Teresa describes a little scene: she watches as Teresita, about eleven years old, makes her first attempts at writing. This detail is significant. In 1935, the international literary quarterly Books Abroad invited the famed Ecuadorean writer Víctor Manuel Rendón, to write an article on Ecuadorean literature. He chose ‘Women Writers of Ecuador’ as his topic and made a bold claim:
Who was the first woman writer of Ecuador? Teresa de Jesús Cepeda (1566–1610). Her father was a brother of Santa Teresa de Jesús. She was born in Quito but was taken at an early age to Spain and educated in the Carmelite Convent over which her glorious aunt presided. The latter said of her: “She has the disposition of an angel, and is a brilliant conversationalist; she tells stories of the Indians and of the sea better than I could tell them.” All that we have of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda is her letters; but they are written with consummate grace and in the purest Castilian, abounding in profound ideas in which discretion, strength, modesty, and piety vie with one another, like reflections of the divine intellectual gifts of the Saint of Avila.
Discalced Carmelite historian Father Iván Mora Pernía places Teresita’s date of birth as 25 October, relying upon the research of Teresian biographer Father Salvador de la Virgen del Carmen, OCD.
Father Mora recalls the words of St. Teresa’s brother Lorenzo, Teresita’s father. In July 1576, while Teresa remained in Toledo at Father Gracián’s direction, Lorenzo traveled to Avila and presented his daughter to the nuns at the Carmel of St. Joseph, saying: “I’m giving you the best gift I brought back from the Indies.” Teresita had already charmed the sisters in Seville, and now she would make St. Joseph’s her home.
Rendón, Víctor M. “Women Writers of Ecuador.” Books Abroad 9, no. 4 (1935): 380–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/40077015.
Featured image: Portrait of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda by Fray Juan de la Miseria (Italian, 1526–1616), the same artist who painted the only definitively authentic portrait of St. Teresa of Avila in 1576. The painting is located at the Convento de las Teresas in Seville and depicts the young Discalced Carmelite nun known as “Teresita,” niece of St. Teresa of Avila. Image credit: © Jl FilpoC / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
#DonLorenzoDeCepeda #familyLife #StTeresaOfAvila #TeresitaDeCepeda #WomenWritersOfEcuador
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