This post is part of our Easter series on the Seven Joys of Mary. God calls us each of us to use our gifts to serve others and to glorify Him. In this meditation, Caitlyn reflects on the gift and…
This post is part of our Easter series on the Seven Joys of Mary. God calls us each of us to use our gifts to serve others and to glorify Him. In this meditation, Caitlyn reflects on the gift and…
“Joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5 Christ is risen! With the dawn of Easter, a season of joy has come upon us, longer than the season of fasting that led up to it. After this past Lent, in which…
This post is part of our Lenten series, journeying the Stations of the Cross. It can be hard to face ourselves, to examine our brokenness, but in this reflection on the Eleventh Station of the Cross, Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross,…
This post is part of our Lenten series, journeying the Stations of the Cross. In this reflection on the First Station of the Cross, Jesus Is Condemned to Death, our Editor Caitlyn talks about rejecting perfectionism, embracing imperfection and an…
My childhood was spent running barefoot through the meadow and the woods and the gardens of northwest Indiana with the dogs and the neighbors’ dogs, and whatever bugs or snakes or toads I decided to befriend. In my memory, every…
As a student, St. Thomas Aquinas was called by his classmates the Dumb Ox, both because of his size and because he didn’t talk very much during class. His teacher, who later became known as St. Albert the Great, is said…
Blessed Imelda Lambertini is a child saint often remembered as saying, “Tell me, can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?” She was born in the year 1322, and she had a desire to receive the Eucharist from…
When I was little, sometime around third grade, I wanted to be a martyr. Not that I wanted to die a martyr’s death, or even be remembered as having a martyr’s courage or faith or unyielding hope. In all honesty,…
