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The Saint of Rib-Breaking Prayer
Today, we celebrate the feast day of Saint Philip Neri, a Saint who slowly but surely became one of my closest spiritual fathers. His humility, wit, and cheer were introduced...
Land of the Worrying
I have always told people back home that post-grade life in D.C. is like living in “the land of the worrying.” What if I never get the job I want?...
Home in His Sanctuary
My five months in Europe were some of the loneliest of my life. I usually found myself alone at Mass each weekend in a different church than the week before,...
Crying Out From the Sonoran Desert
I grew up in the Sonoran Desert and as a child, I accompanied my grandparents on a few cross-country summer road trips. I can see myself in the back seat,...
Where Does All the Joy Come From?
As a freshman in high school, I strutted to my locker each morning with a large caramel frappucino, a full set of acrylic nails, and my uniform skirt waistband rolled....
When Resentment Meets Thanksgiving
The sun had not even risen yet and I was already rolling my eyes. I am never less patient than when I am about to go through security at Reagan...
A Tear-Gassed Fragrance
I gathered my belongings off the cobblestone and started my walk to the train station. As I gallivanted solo through the streets of the south of France, I was so...
Lowering Our Nets Anyway
I skipped class, curled up in my flannel sheets, and consoled my despair with a latte when the Lord put today’s Gospel (Luke 5:1-11) on my heart. One thing that...
Awaiting the Banquet
When I turned 16, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. I would never have planned anything myself because truthfully, I assumed it would burden others and I was...
Espoused in the Fidelity of God
This last season of my life has been marked by a great wave of personal disappointments. My relationship unexpectedly ended. My last semester of college was cancelled as classes went...
Who is Your Eternal Teacher?
My grandfather and I spent much of my childhood huddled around a magnetic drawing board completing arithmetic problems for fun. We would take breaks to eat nachos and waltz around...
The Texts We Shouldn't Send
A few years ago, perched on my lofted dorm room bed, I was scrolling through Instagram to find that the guy I spent nearly all my teenage years pining over...
