If you watch the news, there is a undeniable emphasis on the increase in turmoil in our country. Maybe it may even reach to your own neighborhoods. We seldom have control over what is going on in the outside world. But our families’ domains, in our homes, are places where we can cultivate peace and virtue in the midst of exterior unrest. That is the biggest defense against all the evils that are pervasive in the secular world — the evils of injustice and racism, but most of all the evil of ignorance and denial of the Truth — the Truth that IS God. During these days of pandemic and civil unrest, our home life has been a haven of peace. We pray together, with devotions and the daily Rosary; we play together, with a football and board games; we walk together through our neighborhood, praying for others and the world; and we talk about the serious issues facing our communities — of which there are many, and how we can be a voice for change, a voice for cultivating peace in a world of pandemic. Prayer provides the fertile ground to cultivate virtue, and virtue enables and encourages acts of goodness that will not only blossom within our homes, but will spread like seeds on the winds of culture outside of our home to sprout in the most unlikely places and bring much needed beauty into a world that has forgotten what true beauty is.