Blessed Chats: Addiction // Alcohol
Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
The Time I Prayed for a Priest (and a Miracle Happened)
As an Army family, we’ve lived all over and sometimes have not been near a Military base. So we’d look for the nearest civilian church to attend while in those...
Friendship + Fellowship with Non-Catholics
I was not raised in a Catholic home. In fact, I am the only Catholic in my whole family. I converted when I was 7 years old and I’ve been...
An Examination of Media Intake
Does your phone give God glory? Is it a crutch you use to “check out” of life, or is it a tool helping you to “check in” with people and...
On Body Image
For from their greatness and beauty of created things, their original author, by analogy can be seen. -Wisdom 13: 5 Have you ever listened to little kids boast about their...
The Heart of Worship
Rhythm is a dancer, it’s a soul companion; you can feel it everywhere. These lyrics by the famed German group Snap from decades ago immediately transport me back in time,...
Wholly Surrendered
It started as a quiet stirring in my heart, this gentle, almost imperceptible whisper from the Lord: “Come and rest with Me awhile.” I didn't understand what it meant, but...
Litany of Saints for Single People
In my former experience as a single woman within the Church, I often felt alone and misunderstood. Most articles I read and homilies I heard on the subject encouraged me...
Tips for Praying with Your Roommates
Roommates make up a home just as much as the brick and mortar or the cute succulent decorations of any house. We want our homes to be places of peace...
The Blessed Mother Bolstered My Hope in the Face of Despair
Sometimes in life we are faced with moments that change everything. It can be difficult to stay upright when life does not go as planned, careening drastically off course. The...
The "College Experience"?
Before my freshman year, college was this great mythical story to me. My older sister would come home during the holidays with endless stories of her college experiences and they...
The Beauty I Found in Job Loss
Shock. Anger. Gutted. Disbelief. I will never forget how those emotions seared through my body in the course of seconds when I discovered I lost my job. To say I...
