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Today is Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021.

Today is also the feast day of an English saint who died during the Reformation.

His name is St. Thomas Moore.

He died, even though he was friends with King Henry the 8th, when he refused to abandon his Catholic faith, remain true to Rome, even though all of England had broken away.

Now, all week long, we have Mrs. Kimberly Hahn on the podcast sharing wisdom about how to make our ordinary homes into a very special and holy place for our families. So today, our question for her is,

how do we work together as parents and children to make the kind of home that we all want.

Well, we begin with our relationship with God, first and foremost, because he's the only one

who really can bring peace within us so that we can be a channel of peace in our home.

And I would really recommend, if you don't do it yet, to have a prayer as an act of

consecration at the very start of the day.

Scott brought that to our family, and we memorized a prayer of consecration, and all of our

children say the same prayer with their children.

So when we were all gathered together recently, all 19 grandchildren and three in-laws and

everybody all together, we all knew the same prayer and we prayed it together.

We gather up the day at the start of the day so that as we move through the day, everything is an

expression of the prayer we've already given to God. So our joys, our sufferings, our challenges,

our work is all gathered up and we give that to God. Those of you that are older, the older children in the family, you have a lot of opportunities

in your family to serve.

If you can think, I am serving God as I take my little brother outside or I play ball

with my little sister or I set the table for dinner. If you cannot think

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