Liturgical Living in July for the Everyday Woman
Welcome to the month dedicated to the Most Precious Blood, ladies. Let that pour over you, literally. Let the Most Precious Blood of Christ flow into your life and wash...
A Josemaría Escrivá-Inspired Dinner Party
One of my favorite things about summer is the gatherings with family and friends. I love having the people I care about the most sitting around a table laughing, talking,...
When the Holy Spirit Seeks: A Reflection for Pentecost
While I was hurrying through a large airport trying to catch what I imagined to be the last flight out, I felt the Holy Spirit whisper to me: “Everything will...
Liturgical Living for the Everyday Woman
Let's say you want to make more time to celebrate the liturgical year, but every time you go searching for ideas, you find a plethora of children’s craft and youth...
Best-Lent-Evah-itis (Like Senioritis But Worse)
I sometimes discover myself holding a funny tool to measure ‘success’ the spiritual life. Here we are: deep into Lent. At this point you and I might be tempted to...
Saint Joseph, Patron Saint of "What Am I Doing with My Life?"
It’s happened to all of us. At least once. Likely many more times. It may be a flustered, fleeting fathoming. It may be a more contemplated conundrum. Sometimes it’s a...
10 Things You Might Not Know about Saint Patrick
Good ole’ Saint Patrick. Father of the acclaimed holiday boasting some of the best parades, parties, and Irish food one can find—a saint who makes green everyone’s color at least...
Just Keep Going: A Little Lenten Encouragement
We are one third of the way through Lent . . . how goes things, my friends? Are you ready to throw in the towel yet? Are you sitting on...
Lent for the Married
Andrew and I were passing ideas back forth—sweets, alcohol, eating between meals. What to give up for Lent? I could do the typical, but I want this year to be...
A Glimpse Into Fat Tuesday from a New Orleans Native
When we are talking liturgical year, I know Fat Tuesday is the term most people use to describe the day before Ash Wednesday. But as a New Orleans native, for...
Extraordinary Women: St. Teresa Benedicta of Cross (Edith Stein)
Our daily lives can seem very ordinary, whether we work all day, answering emails from coworkers who are asking a question that was already answered in an email sent two...
Extraordinary Women: Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa's quotes are gold. She famously once said, "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts there can be no more pain, and only love."...
