Walls with books suitable for all ages and cozy places to read them.

My children have always done well on any kind of religious examination, but yet we've never sat down in any kind of formal study environment to teach them, as is often written of on other blogs.

I suspect the reason they've done well is because the Faith permeates our life at home, and so likewise does it permeate the discussions which is where the children in turn have learned their Faith. It's been a passive method, not unlike our walls lined with books.

The books are there. They're part of their lives, and they couldn't imagine it any other way.

Trolley cars and the neighbors we never see

The other day while driving home from the only local motu proprio mass, I pointed out to the children a pair of old trolley train tracks which were visible at the road surface. For them, trains are a novelty and cars are the only practical mode of transportation. But it wasn’t that long ago that those trolley tracks were the more practical mode of transportation.