We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
Today I am linked up over at Jennifer Fulwiler's Conversion Diary for 7 Quick Takes. Join us with your quick takes for the week here: 1. My husband and I bought our first home together in May of this year. We actually ended up in the town where our parish is located (long story as …
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Okay, I am just going to be honest here, sometimes having to use NFP sucks. I don't mean because I want to use contraception. Quite the opposite. I know how contraception has hurt marriages, our culture, women, pretty much everybody. Our culture just cannot see it, but the Church has predicted the disastrous results we …
This morning I got up at 5am. My daughter started to cry for me at 457am, so I put her in the bed with my husband and then I got up for the day. I started coffee in the coffeepot and made a frittata for us to eat for breakfast. I then prayed Lauds, and …
If there is one thing that marriage and motherhood is teaching me, it is how deeply selfish I am; how attached I am to things whether it be: food, coffee, me-time, social media, TV shows, books, writing, etc. These are all good things in and of themselves. Writing for instance is a gift that I …
A vocation is not necessarily where we thought we would end up. Instead, a vocation is where God calls us to journey towards Him. In short, it is how He makes us saints. And that, my friends, is the meaning of life: to be a saint. We either choose to answer is call or we …
Yesterday I had my monthly Lay Dominican meeting. During Mass, the Homily focused on prayer. Father talked about how we can underestimate the power of prayer and that it is essential to the Christian life. It is the focus, along with the Sacraments, of the Christian path. It was then that I felt like God …
Swimming the Depths 