Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the skies drop it down. Let the earth open

Hey Mamas, how’s it going? Putting a big shiny ribbon on another flawless Christmas celebration with your saintly family? Sighing with contentment

Every year on this day I find myself humming U2’s lyric, “Nothing changes on New Year’s Day,” on mental repeat. I don’t

  Across sixteen centuries, Augustine says to me:  “Let us not resist his first coming,  so that we may not dread the

Love one another. This feels like both the easiest and the hardest part of my faith. Of course I love others! I

Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there

My precious daughter,  So today was a rough day! Your children were particularly trying and you went to bed in tears.  You

When I was in college, the chapel in my dorm had very beautiful white stone stations of the cross. As a young

When my father died in my childhood home, right within the four walls of the room I was born in, my mom

Yesterday my husband and I traveled all of ten miles to my daughter’s home. We were attending the annual recitation and dance

As they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight (Acts 1:9). After his Resurrection

Motherhood is a sacred invitation to participate deeply in the life of Christ. I remember this realization rushing upon me once again

“The Bridegroom is with you!” John Paul proclaimed this in 1994, in his “Letter to Families.” Jesus is present as Bridegroom in

. . . you know that I love you.  The Lord asks Peter three times in today’s Gospel, “Do you love me?”

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there . . . Then Jesus said, “Father,

“This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me”. . . And likewise [he took]

Last year, a friend introduced me to A.E. Stallings’ poem “Containment,” and I have since been reminded of it regularly. Its imagery—especially

And Mary said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be unto me according to thy word.” And with that the

Mothers, your prayers are powerful. Our Church tells us, “To you [women] is entrusted the peace of the world” (Second Vatican Council,

Do you have trouble finishing a novena? If so, you should try the Impossible Novena!  This novena, which starts at the feast