"Sing to the LORD a new song" (Responsorial Psalm). I look back on Advent past and think, I have wasted...

I always hated roll call on the first day of school because I never knew which name the teacher was...

Feeling out of place became the most recurring emotion that I felt so deeply during my last years of high...

The snow was finally melting away as I took my daily walk outside, quarantined to my yard and driveway. Warmth...

Can I be real with all of you? A fear in my single woman, subconscious mind is being infertile. Of...

I was several states away on the day my nephew was to be born, and I don’t think I put...

“I just finished a thirty-day novena to Saint Joseph, and it was amazing,” she gushed. I smiled and thought, Wow,...

The old wooden table belonged to my grandparents. My grandfather was a musician, and one week before Christmas he came...

I wheeled the minivan into the parking lot, thankful for a few extra minutes to shuttle my sons into the...

I was a college senior and had finally decided that enough was enough. I needed to find new friends who...

My husband and I are dreamers. We enjoy setting goals and achieving them. We came into our marriage with a...

Crawling into my lap with downcast eyes, she apologized in her sweet little voice for her struggles the previous night....

During my pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, I experienced Mary’s love so deeply....

“To what shall I compare this generation?” (Matthew 11:16) As a campus minister to college students, I can tell you...

I was getting divorced, not even a year after I’d married, and I felt destroyed. So I went away a...

This week in 2019, my then two-year-old son and my husband were in two different hospitals. My son was doing...

The Mother of God and I had some difficulties in our relationship. And, let’s face it, since she’s the sinless...