Incorporate faith into your day-to-day family life.
Our relationship with God is not supposed to stay within the walls of our parish when we leave Sunday Mass. Instead, faith should transform our hearts, our families, and our homes into a welcoming place to encounter Christ.
But this isn’t always easy. Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
This book goes beyond the aesthetic or surface-level attributes of a Catholic home. Beyond that, it shares how to foster holiness in all the little moments in Catholic family life.
Within these pages, Catholics will find:
Ways to pray as a family. Guidance for cultivating a peaceful home even with growing children. Ways to strengthen each individual relationship in your family. Practical suggestions for seeking holiness in the midst of family life. Advice on how to take advantage of the daily opportunity to grow in faith as a family. Examples of how to show your children the importance of your marriage.
Living Beyond Sunday is also a great addition to any marriage preparation program.
An excellent, easy to read introduction and guide to living as the domestic church in your home. The authors provide several examples of how to live the Church’s teachings in the home and in familial relationships. This would be a great book for a small group of married couples! One chapter per week would be easy for everyone and would give a week in between chapters to try to put into practice the ideas put forth.
This is a book that no family should be without. Each chapter consists of a short essay and accompanying prayer. The writing is tight and effective, perfect for busy couples.
An easy read with simple applications to making our homes a holier place. I’d recommend to any Christians wanting to live more intentionally holiness in the home.