The Life After: A Poem for Holy Saturday
I speak now of the Life After, which I can imagine, and not the AfterLife, which I cannot, although He spoke of it many times. I look up at Him...
MYSTERY: Discovering the Depth of the Rosary
Perhaps the best person to teach us about the life of Christ is His mother, Mary. After all, she was there with Him from the moment of the Incarnation to...
New Melleray Abbey and the Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe
I don't know about you, but when I think of the beauty of the Catholic Church I tend to go old school. And by "old school," I mean Old World....
Seeing My Mother: Changing the Way I Look at Mary
As a mom of three little humans, I found myself reflecting on how my perception of my own mom as changed over the years. As a little girl—she was the...
Best Books About Mary
As Catholic women, we are blessed to have a supreme model for womanhood in our Mother Mary. She always points us to Christ. So the more we learn about her,...
BIS Travels: Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, Wisconsin
Champion, Wisconsin, isn’t a place you’d expect to find much. It lays a long stretch of cornfields away from nearby Dyckesville and Algoma. Somewhere close is a town named Alaska....
BiS Travels: Our Lady of the Angels, Costa Rica
People are always amazed by the idea that here in Costa Rica, there is an active volcano virtually in my backyard. We can sit on our porch with coffee...