How to Lead a Small Group Remotely + Online
Small groups are a wonderful way to build community and connect with other women in your area. Many of you have connected with Catholic women through Blessed Brunches or through...
Grieving the Loss of My Baby
My nightstand was cluttered with pre-natal vitamins, anti-nausea medication, and five positive pregnancy tests—all little reminders of the small life inside of me. In the span of a few short...
Keeping Holy the Sabbath: Why It Matters + How We Can Do It
Far too many times, I’ve let Sundays be my catch-all days. My “I didn’t have time to get this done yet, so I’ll just do it today” days. Sundays, in...
Breaking the Binge
I recently got a Netflix account. I know, it’s been around a while. But I have been trying to avoid it, as I have heard so many people talk about...
Every Sin Has a Backstory
My friend told me he is gay. I love him dearly but he wants me to celebrate him coming out. What should I do? My sister wants to move in...
The Challenges and Opportunities of Fostering Faith in Our Kids
I am not feeling particularly good at this "fostering faith" thing right now. I thought I was. But, in our house, we have run into a few recent and significant...
Living Lent When Your Life is in Transition
As I’m writing this, I am 34 weeks pregnant. My to-do list feels a mile long, filled with tasks varying in importance from “hang pictures in the nursery” to “install...
Mourning the Life You Envisioned
“Let go of the life you imagined for the life God has ready for you.” How many times have you heard, or read, some version of those words? It seems...
Feeling Cold
It had been a “bleak midwinter” in West Michigan, to say the least. I did not experience the normal delight and fascination with the cold months as we muddled through...
Living as a Cloistered Cistercian Nun
Valley of Our Lady Monastery is a community of Cistercian nuns who live a life of contemplative prayer according to the Rule of St. Benedict and the traditions of the...
Scripture Verses to Pray When You Have the Winter Blues
It was the first full week of January. My children were back in school, and life was slowly returning to normal after a fun, but unstructured, Christmas break. I expected...
How to Support Foster Families
The Works of Mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works...
