For the Priests
You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek. // Psalm 110:4b For the priest who baptized me into the Catholic Church, let us pray to the Lord. For...
Read the Daily Bread
“Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” // Matthew 4:4b Last year, I experienced what felt like a...
Lamplight to Guide Us
“A lamp to my feet is your word, a light to my path.” // Psalm 119:105 It happens most years by late January: I feel the darkness of the winter...
Receive His Tender Love
Last summer felt like a whirlwind. After months of navigating the wildly hot housing market in our area, the Lord blessed us with an accepted offer on our first house....
His Gentle Promise
Though I’ve never had a piece of land to call my own, I have grown to love gardening. In recent years, my apartment balcony container garden has been such a...
A Prayer for Abiding Unity
Take a deep breath, I think as I try to regain some peace after realizing my friend and I are simply not on the same page about something. My spirit...
Seek Him, Today and Every Day
Happy Easter, dear sister. Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed. Alleluia! What a privilege for us to proclaim this Good News today from where we stand in history. I...
Little and Big Yeses
I have a confession to make: my relationship with Mary has never been as great as I would like it to be. I think part of the reason for my...
Timing All Wrong, Trust All Right
Like most married couples, my husband and I have had our share of highs and lows, particularly in our practice of Natural Family Planning. We are in a perpetual state...
He Loved Us First
I loved my son from the blessed moment I found out he was within my womb. Through each day of my pregnancy, his first breaths in my arms, those sacred...
Was It the Worst?
Well, sisters, we made it. It’s the last day of 2020. What. A. Year. Can I get an amen? For better or for worse, 2020 was a year filled to...
Great Banquet Invite
Ping ping! Hearing the familiar sound, I tapped the screen of my phone to see a message from a respected friend: “How can I be praying for you?” I paused...
