Adam lay bounden, Bounden in a bond; Four thousand winter Thought he not too long. And all was for an apple, An apple that he
I have been thinking about saints a lot recently. Not any particular saint, but just saints in general. You see, a few years ago I
Last month I joined a Beachbody challenge group with some women from college. I have some weight to lose and have some other fitness goals—not
When Job cries out against God in his suffering, God questions Job, “Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with
Perhaps you have heard Catholics mention that they have attended a spiritual retreat at one time or another. Perhaps you have, yourself, been invited to
Questions such as communion for the divorced and remarried, female deacons, and acceptance of homosexual relationships have dominated the media discussion about the Synod that
“Mooooommmmy! MOM-MY!” My typical day starts with the high pitched voice of my two year old, yelling for me from her crib. Most of the
A few months ago, my husband and I agreed to re-do the roof on the outreach and hospitality house we run for the Parish in
When I was little, I decided that I was going to take a new and unusual saint for my confirmation patron. I wanted to stand
It seems as though New York City is still in a daze after our visit from the Holy Father last week. He was here for
Recently, I was watching the movie There Be Dragons about St. Josemaria Escriva and the Spanish Civil War, and I began thinking about the call to
Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? No: for this purpose I have come to this
It seems like we rarely hear about the Song of Songs anymore. At Mass, we read from this book only a couple times of the
“It is impossible to describe the feeling that comes over you at such a time. The feeling that somehow, in an instant of time, everything
In St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, he exhorts his readers to be imitators of God. I venture to say that St. Paul exhorts us
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a chance to take my two oldest daughters roller-skating at a local skating rink. They’re 4 years
Earlier this summer, I was pleasantly surprised when I received my mid-year fitness summary: I had run over 100 miles in the previous four months.
To study any subject at depth is, in a certain way, to lose one’s innocence. Before the Copernican revolution, it was easy, indeed natural, to
I was born in the mid-1980s, and the majority of my early faith formation happened in the 90s. There are many good things that came
On the way to work one day, you get into a car crash. The hassle aggravates you. But in a phone conversation with your insurance
I remember that when I learned as a child about Jesus’s Passion, I was surprised to hear that when Jesus was asked to take up
