“Abuse (and the trauma that results from it) causes not only the anxiety of meaninglessness and the anxiety of guilt, but also the anxiety of
One good plan for Lent is to spend some minutes a day studying the faith more, or at least one aspect of it, like the
You are dust and to dust, you shall return. Each time I hear this phrase at Ash Wednesday, I think of a little prayer that
Imagine for a moment you are an enemy of the Catholic Church. You wish everybody could just leave this horrible institution. Yet you know that
One of the highlights of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that I was on recently, was witnessing married couples renew their marriage vows in
I don’t know what to make of these Conjugal visits of ours, Whether they make things better Or worse between us. I have suffered more
All you who have been baptized into Christ / Have put on Christ. Saint Melito of Sardis writes, “In Abel he was slain, in Isaac
Recently, I was able to attend the ordination of my brother-in-law to the priesthood, and there, before my eyes, his soul was eternally changed, indelibly
One’s perception of reality has an immense effect on one’s life. It is through this lens that one finds his or her identity, interacts with
People like to say that running in circles in pointless. Well, maybe, it’s not as pointless as it seems!
For all eternity we will be with God, so we should accustom ourselves to his presence. If we want to attain heaven, we must train
On the First Easter Sunday, Jesus appeared to the Apostles and said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send
When I imagine liturgists, this is what comes to mind: Inculturation, the adaptation of liturgical texts, languages, rites, and, most especially, of music, to respect
My husband works at our Archdiocesan seminary, and we try to meet him for Mass there at least once a week. The other day, I
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
When I started attending daily Mass, I became more involved with the liturgical year. The seasons, feast days, and celebrations were all at the forefront
This coming Sunday is the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, and it was with a quote from the Secret Prayer of this Mass that the Fathers
One Christmas Eve I had the flu. While my family went to Lessons and Carols, I wrote a poem about the pain Mary endured to
Have you ever had that experience of walking away from the Sacrament of Reconciliation with an almost overwhelming sense of guilt? A sense of, “Do
I’ve recently started working for a Christian charity, where most of the staff are Evangelical Christians. Being the only Catholic working in the office has
When I first heard of the new Curious Little Catholic series I jumped for joy. As the mother of a two year old and a
