Blessed Chats: Single Women // What I Had to Unlearn (and Relearn) About Dating
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...
Blessed Chats: Single Women // Out of the Dating Dumps
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...
How to Be a Spiritual Encourager
I said, “Yes,” to the invitation to join a Bible study unlike any Bible study I had ever attended. This one did not include reading and studying Scripture; it was...
Worldly Comfort as an Ideal: How to Combat It
I remember when we got married, I joked with my husband that I missed the graffiti from my inner city neighborhood. It’s not that graffiti is something to be applauded...
Finding Ways to Care for Yourself (Ideas Beyond Self-Care)
#selfcare. It’s what we might say when we buy the large mocha with an extra shot of espresso or impulsively buy the dress in the store window. Or if you’re...
Weekly Wallpaper // 265
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. // John 3:16...
Word Before World
“In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus.” These song lyrics have been sitting on my heart lately. I long to begin my day by diving into quiet time...
Catholic Baby Registry (Catholic Gift Ideas for a Baby Shower)
One of the most common inquiries I see and hear within Catholic Facebook groups is for gift recommendations for newborn babies. It’s a popular topic that yields lots of comments,...
One Year In
On March 27, 2020, a rainy evening in Rome, Pope Francis stood overlooking an eerily-empty Saint Peter’s Square. Around the entire world, Catholics set aside their work and woke from...
A Little Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours
Christ Jesus, high priest of the new and eternal covenant, taking human nature, introduced into this earthly exile that hymn which is sung throughout all ages in the halls of...
Being a Catholic Witness in the Workplace
It was an ordinary day at work. Svend was frantically shuffling through the papers, his eyes fixated but his body language giving way to the tension that filled the air....
Showing Compassion for Another Woman's Pain
A few years ago I had an experience that completely woke me up to the fact that not everyone knows how to show compassion to another person’s pain. This incident...
