Devotions
Feast on the Divine Scriptures
At the beginning of this pandemic, I struggled to go to virtual Mass and not have the Sacraments easily accessible. I grappled with not being surrounded by my brothers and...
Homely Hearts
We just concluded the season in which our Church celebrates the world-altering fact that God made His home among men. And in today’s Gospel, we get a front row seat...
Stop and Listen
I hear God’s voice in the voices of my patients, thinking about Hebrews 3:7 today. One afternoon, a teenager came to the clinic with his mother for an emergency visit....
What's Your Purpose?
The third alarm sounds from across the room, the one set to get us out of bed. My husband gets up, turns on the light, and goes off to shave....
His Glory, Our Healing
At a youth conference Mass, I had just knelt down after receiving Holy Eucharist and uttered the prayer, “Lord, who needs Your healing? Show me and give me the courage...
Calling the Ordinary
When I was young, I was terribly insecure, especially when it came to my first real jobs. I would shuffle into interviews with my eyes on the floor and say...
My Greatest Wealth
I have a photograph from the day of my baptism. My young mother is smiling at the camera. She had a 1980s-style perm and had just graduated high school. I’m...
Scandal, Sin, and Saint John
When a well-known Catholic—or even a loved one—disappoints me by falling into public sin or grave error, what do I do with that person? Should I not only separate myself...
Receiving Rest in Prayer
When word got out that Jesus had cured this man of leprosy, others wanted to seek Him out and receive the same. Complete healing. A miracle. And Jesus could have...
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...
Be-Loved, Sister
"Beloved" (1 John 4:11). Whenever God starts with this word, He instantaneously captivates me. It must be the cheesy romantic in me. Yet when the commandment to love one another...
Feeling Hunted by Insufficiency
I sensed an emptiness inside that I couldn’t ignore. It was an emptiness that brought years of tears and heartache, an emptiness with a name. Infertility the doctors called it,...
