We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
Today's episode is on St. Padre Pio and persevering through this period of exile. He is a saint who achieved high levels of sanctity and was given great blessings and gifts from God, including the stigmata. He suffered tremendously, often at the hands of others because of these extraordinary gifts. During this time as we …
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**I know I haven't been keeping up with the blog lately. I have multiple writing projects going at present, so I've been giving my attention to those over regular blogging. Below is the first piece I've published at Crisis Magazine. ***It should be noted, that while I published an article today respectfully disagreeing with my …
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It is something that many Catholics hear often from others: "Mass is boring". Their reasons for feeling this way are varied: the Homily, music, tradition, to the movements of the Mass themselves, bore them. If there is something we Catholics know how to argue about and disagree on it is the Mass. I have no …
There is a disconcerting trend that I observe daily in social media. It is that many Catholics have mistaken their ideology for authentic Catholic faith. This is most typically combined with a misunderstanding of the ordering of politics in regard to the Faith. Many place their political leanings or personal preferences before the Church. This …
I got an excellent lesson from Our Lord in humility and following His will for me this past Friday. My husband and I attended a University of Notre Dame Chorale concert at a local parish. It was extraordinary and my first experience of culture since I had my daughter 2.5 years ago. It was the …
November is the month in the Church when we remember and pray for the dead. The month begins with the Solemnity of All Saints to celebrate the men and women who have gone before us and who pray for us from Heaven. Then All Souls is on the 2nd, which is dedicated to the dead …
Swimming the Depths 