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WEMH #131 The christmas porringer chapter 1

12/15/2018

Today starts the chapter-a-day countdown until Christmas. I love this heartwarming story that so captures the transformational power of Christ's love in our lives.

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WEMH #129 the knights of art

12/14/2018

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Today, the story of Raphael.

"...if you learn something about these great artists and their wonderful pictures, it will help your eyes to grow wise... Their pictures will not only be a delight to your eyes, but will teach your heart something deeper and more wonderful than any words can explain."

--Amy Steedman

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Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman

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wemh #128 the legend of the christmas rose

12/12/2018

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"...just as the sweet green grass and common flowers cover the earth where treasure lies hid, just as the rough shell holds in its heart the soft, shining pearl, so these old stories may seem at first but simple, common tales, but those who look beneath will find at the heart of them a living truth more precious than gold or shining pearls."

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Legends and Stories of Italy for Children by Amy Steedman

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wemh #127 greek mythology

12/12/2018

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"There is much in them calculated at once to purify and elevate both the intellect and the heart..."

Art credit: Narcissus by John William Waterhouse

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wemh #126 Socrates

12/10/2018

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"...he was quite sure that...there was one really true Most High God, who governed the world...and sent him the inward voice, which he tried to obey to the utmost of his power, and by so doing...his inward sight grew clearer and clearer."

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Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History for the Little Ones by Charlotte Yonge
The Death of Socrates found in the Art Section of Mother's University

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weMh #125 roman mothers of virtue

12/8/2018

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"The theory that mothers were the ruling influence on the characteristics of their children is not a new one, having been held by the ancients as an indisputable truth. To the mothers they looked as the source of the improvement or the degeneracy of the race."

Art: Mother and Wife of Coriolanus Pleading With Him

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Stories of Great Wives and Mothers
Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin

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WEMH #124 MONICA, THE MOTHER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE

12/7/2018

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"It is to my mother that I owe everything. If I am Thy Child, O my God, it is because Thou gavest me such a mother. If I prefer the truth to all other things, it is the point of my mother's teachings..."

--St. Augustine

A message of hope to you mothers of 'wayward' children. Love, patience, prayers...and often tears.

Art credit: Saint Augustine and Saint Monica by Ary Scheffer (1846)

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The Mothers of Great Men and Women by Laura Holloway
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WEMH #123 MARY WASHINGTON, MOTHER OF GEORGE

12/6/2018

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"And say to mothers, what a holy charge
Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new born mind."

--from a poem by L.N. Sigourney, read as a tribute to Mary Washington

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The Mothers of Great Men and Women by Laura Holloway
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wemh #122 george washington, one man of virtue

12/5/2018

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Virtue: Strength; That substance or quality of physical bodies, by which they act and produce effects on other bodies.
(1828 Webster dictionary)

And why people liken him to Cincinnatus.

Art credit: Cincinnatus Abandons the Plough to Dictate Laws of Rome by Juan Antonio Ribera y Fernandez