text: Yes, we have children, lots of them. Yes we live on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area. Yes we send and have sent our children to Catholic schools, until and including 12th grade. We home school all our children until 9th grade, saving our money to send them to a good solid Catholic High School.  Some people may need a crash course in Catholic living...heroic living, living their vocation with trust, effort, prayer, abandonment, "kenosis", getting closer and closer and closer to unity with God each day...USING the raw material of parenting...the diapers, the shortages, the little joys, the tragic medical conditions that can come, the broken cars, washing machines, and all difficulties and all easy days too.
  Kenosis! So few people understand. 
  So many Catholics have NO IDEA what I am talking about. None. They don't understand at any depth the meaning of the "universal call to holiness".
  Some Catholics complain if they can't eat out more than once a month.