5 Steps for When Your Prayer Life Is in Survival Mode
We’ve all been there, right? Life throws us a few curve balls and sends our life careening down unknown paths and we find ourselves nowhere near where we thought we’d be. It could be just about...
View Article5 Ways to Foster Your Son’s Vocation to the Priesthood
Vocations. We all have one. It’s a special gift that God gives to each one of us and they are at the same time universal and as individual as we are. Mine is to marriage and motherhood. While this...
View ArticlePenciling in God: Making Time to Pray in a Busy World
6:30 AM — Wake up. Mildly curse alarm clock. Stumble around in darkened room trying not to wake children who have once again found their way in to your bed. Get dressed. Work out (some days; stop...
View Article5 Ways to Foster Your Daughter’s Vocation to the Convent
Recently, I wrote up a little piece about fostering vocations to the priesthood and religious life. In it, I shared a few tips for creating a family environment where a vocation could flourish should...
View ArticleWant to Be More Attentive at Mass? Sit with Kids
When I look back on my days before kids (and I have to force myself to remember sometimes that there were, in fact, days before kids in my life), I find myself romanticizing them (the days, not the...
View Article5 Reasons for Getting to Know Your Parish Family
Our parish is supposed to be our home, right? And yet, how many of us attend Mass every week, or even daily, and have no idea what the names are of those in the pews around us? How many of us have no...
View ArticleWhy Remembering Miscarriages Matters
Every life matters. As a Catholic and a staunch pro-lifer, I believe this firmly. I always have. It’s why I worked for several years at a non-profit devoted to “saving the babies” and was part of the...
View ArticleWhy I Bring My Kids to Funerals
On Monday morning, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, my family and I were at Mass. This is not unusual, as it was holy day of obligation. What is unusual, to some at...
View ArticleFYI Your Holiness: I’m Not a Rabbit
I try to refrain from commenting (publicly, at least) on Pope Francis’ off the cuff remarks. You know the ones. They are usually outrageous on the surface and are the source in some way or other for...
View ArticleMovie Review: Why You Should See Paddington
Have you been to the movies lately? Yeah. Neither had I, until this past Saturday. For a matinee it was still a small fortune with eight of us. If it hadn’t been for the generosity of a sweet sister of...
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