By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 19
The Saints and mystics recount the tremendous love with which Our Lord embraced His Passion and Death. Imagine the unflinching, resolute love that kept Jesus tied to that pillar, lash after agonizing lash. The vastness of His love is unfathomable. He endured it all to win salvation for each person—it was for you, dear sister in Christ.Â
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 18
The First Sorrowful Mystery // The Agony in the Garden Fruit of the Mystery // Conformity to the Will of God Reflect The night before my perpetual vows, in my...
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 17
As human beings, we naturally run from suffering—because we are made for perfect goodness, truth, and beauty. We are made for union with God.
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 16
Each of the Fruits of the Luminous Mysteries—The Baptism in the Jordan, The Wedding at Cana, The Proclamation the Kingdom, The Transfiguration, and The Institution of the Eucharist—give us a moment in Jesus’ public ministry to reflect on and see how the work He performed 2,000 years ago is present to us today in our own circumstances.Â
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 15
I didn’t exactly understand what we were doing at the chapel during Eucharistic Adoration as a pre-teen, but I knew it had to be something really special because it was so quiet and peaceful.
How to Simplify Your Morning Routine
My days went from chaos to order when I made the decision to organize my time around when I would pray. All other tasks and duties revolve around my first...
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 14
As a child, I thought holiness was only available to those who lived in convents or were cloistered in some remote mountain top experiencing absolute solitude praying for the rest of us poor sinners down below. That image I had about holiness changed as I grew in my faith.Â
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 13
What a great opportunity these past couple of months have offered us to exhibit charity, forgiveness, love of neighbor, compassion, and dying of self.
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 12
During my third pregnancy I felt Mary’s fiat repeating in prayer. Her humble “yes†to everything that unfolded in her life in being the mother of Our Savior and King left me contemplating the areas of my life where I had delayed or stifled saying “yes†out of worry or doubt.Â
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 11
When our son was about three months old, our parish priest asked if he could play the part of Baby Jesus for the Christmas midnight Mass. I said no on the spot without any hesitation! I was a brand new mom and envisioned our son wailing and crying the whole time. I just couldn’t bear the thought of ruining someone else’s Mass experience during midnight Mass!Â
How Can My Wounds Speak to My Calling?
As I approach my college graduation, more and more conversations have begun circling around this certain topic: what am I supposed to do with my life? What is my vocation?...
By Their Fruits: The 2021 Prayer Pledge // Day 10
The word joyful in Latin is laetantam alleluia, which uniquely fits each of the mysteries that we walked through last week. This week we will be walking prayerfully through the Luminous mysteries. Known as the Mysteries of Light, the Luminous Mysteries call our attention to Jesus' desire for us to have the light of His life within us.Â
