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Holly Pierlot

A Mother’s Rule of Life {Post 4}

The third chapter of A Mother’s Rule of Life concerns prayer. By prayer, though, Pierlot really means all of one’s personal spiritual life–prayer, yes, but also time for study and meditation, and even the Sacraments are included under this heading. The spirit of the first P [Prayer], then, is to look into our own lives, see where God has led us so far, and learn what we ought to do to make ourselves more available to his direct and personal intervention Continue Reading…
December 9, 2011
A Mother’s Rule of Life {Post 3}

Why do we sometimes want to put off our duties? Why does culture send us the message that what we are doing is mundane and fit for dullards? Can we find holiness, beauty, sanctification, and reward in our calling? Pierlot thinks we can. Once, she found despair and chaos in her calling. Her world sounded, for lack of a better term, ugly. I’m sure there were bright spots–she loved her God and husband and children, after all. But she was Continue Reading…
November 22, 2011
A Mother’s Rule of Life {Post 2}

Those within the Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christendom may know what a “Rule of Life” is because of their background. But it seems to me that a perfectly obvious question for a Protestant to ask is, “What is a Rule anyhow?” Thankfully, the second chapter of A Mother’s Rule of Life answers this question for us. A Rule of Life is a traditional Christian tool for ordering one’s vocation. Found most often in religious community life, a Rule can also be Continue Reading…
November 16, 2011
Home Education
A Mother’s Rule of Life {Post 1}

Someone told me I should blog my way through A Mother’s Rule of Life by Holly Pierlot. I was noncommittal, mainly because I hadn’t cracked it open yet. But now that I’ve read a couple chapters, I see that it’d be worth my time to think through these ideas and see how they might help my own little home project. Since everyone else is blogging through Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life, it makes sense to tackle what is basically Continue Reading…
November 8, 2011