After the Fourth of July, summer begins to really fly by. I panic, wondering how we are going to get to all the fun activities on our...

In researching mothers who were saints (or at least in the process of canonization), I found over 40 mommies who were holy women. Not all...

While I am taking down some of my Christmas decoration, I leave the Nativity set on our mantel up until February 2, the feast of the...

Just about 250 years after Jesus died, rose, and ascended into Heaven, a beautiful little girl was born a woman of Greek descent and a...

What a bird!” my father would say to describe someone who was acting silly. Birds can be silly sometimes. They can also be quite...

Have you ever been in a situation where the Catholic faith or Christian living needed to be defended and you, either because you were not...

In St. John's Gospel, which retells St. Nathanael (aka Bartholomew)'s first encounter with Jesus, we come to understand the importance of...

Motherhood is messy. Best laid plans often go awry. The house that was cleaned at naptime looks like a hurricane went through it by...

Motherhood is a sure way to sainthood! The opportunities to grow in holiness abound. All we need to do is accept the plethora of graces...

He just couldn’t do it anymore. He loved “his boys,” and he knew they needed him. But caring for them had taken its toll. So, Don Bosco...

She lay dying in a hospice bed. The cancer had returned, and this time, she was not going to fight it. So, every evening I went to the...

“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder!” These words of the newly beatified John Paul I illustrate...

Laughter is a gift from God. None of His other creatures have the wonderful ability to laugh. I am sure that a good sense of humor is one...

I have twin daughters. What a delight (after the first three blurred years) it has been watching them grow up together, becoming their...

I know of no one whose favorite Christmas carol is Good King Wenceslaus, yet it remains a classic. Upon closer examination of the lyrics,...

Photo by Michael O'Sullivan on Unsplash And so, the Year of Saint Joseph comes to an end today, on the Feast of the Immaculate...

Every weekend in October, the seminarians of Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD and the people from surrounding parishes become...

photo by flyingpete (2007) viamorguefile.com Tomorrow is the feast day of Saint Bartholomew. One of the 12 apostles, my husband and I...

She always wanted to be a nun. She couldn’t imagine being anything else. Frances, however, lived during a time when marriages were...