A missionary living in China called with a plea: could someone house an infant with severe cleft-palate issues for two weeks? The precious little one was being flown to Dallas to receive the intense medical intervention that he needed from a generous surgeon, and the host family had to drop out at the last minute. …READ MORE
Prophetic Proposal
Just recently my husband and I celebrated the twenty-second anniversary of our wedding proposal. That day we went to Mass together so in love, most likely holding hands and giddy with young love. After Mass, we stayed behind to pray. He asked if I would join him in the Stations of the Cross. Yes! Let’s …READ MORE
A Successful Lent: Embracing the Essence of Simplicity
We are officially in the season of Lent. It is day two, and chances are we still feel pretty good about our plans for mortification and observance of this solemn season in preparation for Our Lord’s crucifixion, death, and resurrection. Like most things in our modern world, even Lent can drag us into the dangerous …READ MORE
Lent – An invitation to Transformation
God reveals himself through the beauty of motherhood—he speaks to our hearts and draws us in, initiating a life of fulfillment and holy satisfaction. Yet, when I wake in the gray hours of a dawning Lent, those early moments of my subconscious give me away—both an awareness and a longing are revealed. I am aware …READ MORE
Motherhood & The Problem that Has No Name – Part One
I started noticing it after my second child was born. My first two were fourteen months apart. Even after those crazy months of sleep deprivation and hormones resettling, I just couldn’t shake this underlying feeling of sadness, loneliness, and unfulfillment. Maybe there’s something wrong with me, I thought. I had everything I had ever dreamed …READ MORE
Quote of the Week
“A woman’s sensibilities play a great part in the life of a family and often actually determine its course, and these same sensibilities should play their part in the life of the nation and of mankind as a whole.” —Venerable Pope Pius XII
