Center for Family Care: What Can Mothers Learn from St. Sophia?

Consider and discuss how you would complete the sentence, “A good marriage is…” Then, discuss your impressions of this characterization and what the practice of forgiveness looks like in your marriage…continue reading.

The Church lifts up the Cross of Christ as Her victory, vehicle of salvation, and even Her beauty, but we often forget that our own crosses can share the power of Christ’s. Listen as Presvytera Melanie DiStefano draws encouragement for caregivers from the hymns which exalt the Lord’s Sacrifice on the Cross. Listen here.

It seems as if women have a dormant protective gene in them, activated by child-rearing hormones. At the first sign of their child being harmed, ‘fight mode’ overcomes them entirely. In light of this protective instinct, I have often reflected upon the life of Saint Sophia with incredulous awe. This widowed mother of three was…continue reading.