A few years ago, I found myself feeling indignant about our culture and its obsession with perfect bodies. I had entered that age in life where everywhere I turned it seemed some one was getting “The Mommy Package.” After having…
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Weekly Wallpaper // 10
The weeks seem to go so quickly and we’re back with another Sunday free weekly wallpaper, by me, Erica of Be a Heart. It comes from the second reading today, Ephesians 4:10 – The one who descended is also the one who ascended…
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // PERSEVERANCE
Today we are talking about PERSEVERANCE. “[S]ince we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is…
Ocean of Goodness and Love
It’s one of those days where I have zero clue as to the actual day. I was swearing to my husband that it was Monday, which gave him one of those please-let-her-be-wrong-it-couldn’t-possibly-be-Monday looks. Fortunately I was wrong. But gee-whiz! If…
Weekly Wallpaper // 9
This weekly wallpaper is fresh and uplifting from Erica of Be a Heart. It comes from today’s gospel John 15:9– Remain in my love. So often we make our relationship with God so complicated. We get caught up in the duties of daily…
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // MISSION
Today we are talking about MISSION. We are all called by Christ to be missionaries, carrying His word near and far, through our actions and by our words. How is He calling YOU? You can find all the themes here….
If God Wills It
People often ask when I decided to become a campus missionary. My call, actually, came to me on an overseas mission trip. As I crossed the muddy waters from the Dominican Republic to Haiti, I watched the natives bathe while…
My Domestic Mission
I am a missionary. Yet, I have never been on a mission. I live out my mission each day in my home. Missionary work calls us to give of ourselves to those in need. Some of the neediest ones I…
Weekly Wallpaper // 8
This weekly wallpaper from Erica of Be a Heart depicts a verse from today’s gospel reading, John 15:5 – I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can…
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // LIFE
Today we are talking about LIFE. Each and every life is a precious gift God has entrusted us with to safeguard and enrich the best we can. This is equally true of our own lives and those entrusted to us…
I Chose Life. And His Name is Lexington Anthony.
At 23, I was bartending, serving at my favorite restaurant, working two other jobs and finishing up college. At 23 I was going going going all the time- and it was F U N. I would work hard all day,…
Weekly Wallpaper // 7
This weekly wallpaper is so incredibly beautiful from Erica of Be a Heart. It comes from Psalm 118:21 – I will give thanks to you for you have answered me and have been my savior. No matter what is going on in our…
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // EUCHARIST
Today we are talking about the EUCHARIST. The Eucharist is “the source and summit of our salvation.” What a wonderful gift we have of God truly dwelling among us! Share how this gift has influenced your life. You can find all the…
The First Day I Felt Alone
I remember the first day I felt alone. We were all giggling around the lunch table, the popular girls and I, and we were looking at our other classmates, laughing and telling jokes and mostly just being kids. And I remember…
I Am Here. Come.
Mass with little ones is always chaos. I graduated from a Catholic college, and Mass was the highlight of my day. Really. Depending on my mood, sometimes I liked the lunchtime Mass, with the incense, Latin, and chant, where most…
