Subscribe Form

Today's Readings Jessica reflects on the beginnings of the Church and encourages us to look ahead as we continue to grow the Church.

I have struggled with what to say about the massacre of children and their teacher in Uvalde, Texas a week ago. On the one hand, it feels...

In the decade since I became Catholic and took Saint Perpetua as my patroness and Confirmation name, I have celebrated this feast day...

I first encountered St. Lucy’s Day like I assume all little girls who grew up in the 1990s did; which is to say that I read about her in...

Today's Readings By the time these words are posted, it will have been just over two weeks since the death of Stephen Sondheim, the...

A blog for women seems an unlikely place to find a reflection for St. Andrew. One of the fishermen called by Jesus to be fishers of men...

When I look into the eyes of my youngest niece, Cecelia (Or Cece as my family likes to call her), I can’t help but think of the church's...

For as long as I can remember every year that I was in church ministry there would be a young child in the front pew at church for All...

The first time a therapist used the word trauma to describe my suffering I was stunned. I had just made peace with even going to therapy!...

A game I like to play with people sometimes is asking the following question: “If you could be the patron saint of anything, what would...

Today is the feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. This young woman lived an incredibly simple, ordinary life. In the midst of that life,...

“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is...

The older I get, the more I appreciate the rich heritage of female examples that I come from. My great-great grandmothers who emigrated...

I debated riffing off of the spiritual, When the Saints Come Marching In, but figured I’d leave the puns to others. Beginning this month,...

Today’s Readings Of all the movies that could be emotionally difficult for me that year, I was not anticipating one being Iron Man. Yet,...

Today's Readings Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We...

As I watched the events unfold yesterday afternoon and evening, it was tempting to say how surprising they were, how shocking, how...

In June I helped out with a retreat. The virtual retreat gathered young adults over the course of a week to reflect on vocation and their...