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Marked on Ash Wednesday
For Ash Wednesday last year, my wife and I took the kids to mass at Fulton Sheen’s old seminary, the…
Author Jake Frost
Jake Frost
Jake Frost is the author of Catholic Dad, (Mostly) Funny Stories of Faith, Family and Fatherhood to Encourage and Inspire, a $0.99 e-book on Amazon. He is a lawyer in hiatus, having temporarily traded diapers for depositions and kitchens for court rooms to care for his pre-school aged children. He comes from a large family in a small town of the Midwest, and lives near the Mississippi River with his wife and kids.
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The Season of the Unexpected
I was putting our younger daughter to sleep, and as we snuggled in the chair, I started singing: “Chestnuts roasting…
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In Anticipation of Thanksgiving
I was talking to my Dad one Sunday evening while I stood in the backyard flipping burgers on the grill. …
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The Tough Work of Virtue
My grandfather was a hardworking man. Growing up in frontier country, he started his career as a carpenter building barns;…
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Theology Lessons from a Two-Year Old
Human beings have a desire to impose order on the universe. But much like a parent’s desire to impose order…
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Learning to Sing Like Saint Caedmon
Children have a way of reaching into your heart to find love you didn’t even know was there. I was…
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The Most Important Person
Every child deserves to be the most important person in the world to someone. The ever pithy Lou Holtz, who…
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In Praise of the Unknown Engineers
Who can name the geniuses who have wrought our modern world? The scientists and engineers whose imagination, sweat and determination…
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Now is the Time
My brother John has a great photo from the birth of his first child. It’s a picture of his daughter’s…