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Today’s gospel reading shows Mary’s traveling “in haste” to Judea to see her cousin, Elizabeth. I love that detail. I picture Mary, so...

In the sixth month, Gabriel (the angel) was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man called...

“Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” As I read these words at this moment...

I’m writing this reflection after a recent conversation with my brother who’s left the Catholic Church. Hearing more about his personal...

After receiving the news that she would bear the Son of God, Mary’s immediate response was to seek the comfort and counsel of her older...

“But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart” (Luke 2:19), reflects Mary’s heart as Our Lady of Mount Carmel....

I was standing in a Mexican town square, looking at the facade of a church, when my phone pinged. I was feeling homesick during my study...

Mary is a woman who has known grief. Certainly as a mother, her own child was killed. But also just as a woman.

May 13th is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.  I started reading everything that I could find on apparitions or visions of the Blessed...

Since I finished my undergraduate degree almost nine years ago, I have moved a lot. Across four cities, seven apartments, and six...

The vibrant colors and varied faces of a Diego Rivera mural provided the background to the story of Saint Juan Digeo and Our Lady of...

Like many Catholic women, my relationship with Mary has had its ups and downs. Growing up, women are so often told to idolize Mary and...

“During those days, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to the town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah...

The Gospel for the vigil mass of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is only a few lines from Luke, chapter 11,...

For the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore As released white rose petals melt from on high, More than our eyes look up to the sky. Needs...

Today's Readings This week, Jessica reminds us to remember patience.

Feast of the Visitation It is an intimate thing to tell someone you’re pregnant. Whatever road you took to find you are pregnant, it can...

Today's Readings Jessica invites us to remember Mary as our intercessor.

Bernadette Soubirous suffered from asthma; she spent her life struggling to breathe. When I was reflecting on the life of this saint,...

Today's Readings Good Friday has always seemed to me anything but good. The day the Son of God died, the day the sky turned dark, the day...