Saints are friends who are in heaven, and we can invite them into the ordinary moments of our day.

~1~ I spent the weekend at the beach with a few friends, and it was absolutely wonderful. But by Sunday morning I was looking forward to being home with my family. I had planned to go to Mass in Ocean City, Maryland, but suddenly I had the idea to break my trip in half by […]

With the question of abortion now open for debate in America, women have a critical role in persuading men and women against taking the lives of their children.

There is beauty and power in proclaiming our beliefs together in community worship.

I walked over, glanced at the jar, wrote “197” on a piece of paper, and threw it into the container for guesses.

Mercy goes a long way. Criticism gets us nowhere.

I’m trying to take time to marvel at the colors of this season this fall.

An extraordinary devotion to St. Gerard Majella, the patron saint of expectant mothers whose feast day is Oct. 16, came about after a difficult second pregnancy.

We are always manipulated in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. I think specifically of commercials. My overall impression of commercials is that they are designed to make us feel bad about ourselves.  The idea is to get us to buy something we probably don’t need to “feel better about ourselves.” As we watch people in commercials, […]

Today, I’m not feeling grateful for grief. But I am grateful for Eric. And I’m grateful for the good memories that come rushing back when I think of him.