Reflections, updates, and formation from the Domus family -
for households, for prayer paths, for the Church we serve.
Three days of prayer, fasting, and giving that the Church has kept since the fifth century, arriving September 16, 18, and 19. They were never abolished. They just stopped being required, and a practice nobody has to keep tends to quietly disappear.
The Assumption of Mary is one of only six Holy Days of Obligation in the Catholic calendar. Most families know they need to go to Mass. Almost none know what to do with the rest of the day. Here are the traditions worth recovering.
Saint Lawrence was a deacon who, when Roman authorities demanded the Church hand over its treasures, came back with the sick, the lame, and the poor. He was executed for it. August 10 is his feast - and his story belongs in your household.
Adam Minihan and David Niles hosted a conversation on The Catholic Man Show about leaving corporate work to build Domus Formation, the order of operations Bishop Paprocki stressed for Deacon Michael, and the hardest pillar of fatherhood: Establish.
Andrew Hansen, editor of the Catholic Times, published a feature interview with Deacon Michael on Domus Formation, the domestic church, the Communion of Saints, and the vocational leap that made this work possible.
From the Assumption to Our Lady of Sorrows, the thirty days between August 15 and September 15 form one of the richest Marian seasons in the Catholic calendar. Most families have never heard of it. Here is what it is and one simple thing you can do.
This week Domus takes another step forward - and completes something we have been working toward for a long time. Fasting, almsgiving, and Groups arrive together, completing the three-fold spiritual practice from Matthew 6 and extending Domus beyond the household to voluntary Catholic associations.
This week Domus takes a genuine step forward. Household sharing, named patron saints for every prayer path, a beautiful prayer card sequence in the & Altar app, and a monthly patronal letter - all arriving now.
July has always been the month of the Precious Blood of Jesus - a devotion with deep roots in the medieval Church and an extraordinary theological density. Most contemporary Catholic families have never encountered it. Here is what it is and why it belongs in your household this month.
Summer is the season when Catholic household prayer routines are most likely to dissolve. The school schedule disappears, the structure goes with it, and by August most families have lost whatever daily rhythm they built during the year. It does not have to go this way.