“We have to stop dimming our lights”
This week’s must-reads: 1. The St. Jude Novena is one of the novenas that brings the most people to our website… and I think it’s because St. Jude is the patron saint of impossible causes. We start praying his novena on Friday. Do you have some...
Choosing “the better part” and more
1. I woke up this morning and scrolled through Facebook really quickly and saw that Blessed Is She shared a devotional called, “Wishing to be Seen, Known and Loved,” and mentally tried to remind myself to find that after I actually got out of bed to read —...
An Answered Prayer, Community, and a New Podcast
This week’s must-reads: 1. A big answered prayer of mine… View this post on Instagram This time last year I was praying to find a good community, and God provided. 🙌🏻 I saw pictures from the @blessedisshe__ team retreat and I wanted to be a part of...
Six Things I’ve Learned Through Six Years of Marriage
My husband & I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary last weekend, on Sept. 8th (the feast of the Nativity — the birth of Mary!). In six years we’ve supported each other through major job changes, a few moves, and a handful of health problems....
“Be opened”
This week’s must-reads: 1. “Ephphatha.” “Be opened.” Not ironic at all that this Lily opened this morning. 🙌🏻 God is definitely working on my heart, asking me to be more open to His will (I just know it). Such hard work to trust in Him even though He’s come...
“To Whom Shall We Go?”
This week’s must-reads: 1. Five Lessons for Bishops from A Married Man 2. What to Do When God is Silent 3. “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” – St. John Paul II 4. “Even in a world...
Weeping with those who weep
Here’s a quick list of resources to help you process what we’ve learned in the last week… We are heartsick by the abuse and further victimization of thousands of victims caused by the bishops who covered up these crimes. We’re praying for...
“Do you delight in me? Do you find me beautiful? Am I enough? Do I have what it takes? Am I worthy of love?”
Before The Pray More (online) Healing Retreat officially begins on Monday, I wanted to share with you one of the talks that I thought was so necessary & so needed… this is Healing the Father Wound by Maura Preszler of Made in His Image. Pope Francis says...
Suffering, Healing, and Returning to God
Here’s this week’s must-read edition: 1. “Suffering doesn’t have to destroy us. It doesn’t have to define us.” 2. “My goal… is to continually return to God with my whole heart. To follow Jesus’ lead and get back up after...
“Everybody’s broken”
“Well, everybody’s broken and in need of healing,” my father-in-law said to me this weekend while he sat across a picnic table from me at my niece’s birthday party. And he’s right. Not everybody suffers from the same thing, but everybody...
Talking to Your Kids About NFP & NFP As Self-Care
Today I have two great things to share with you from other bloggers: the first is a post about talking to your kids about NFP by Charisse Tierney, a writer over at Paving the Path to Purity; the second is an audio recording about how charting your fertility may be the...About Me
Hi, I'm Annie! I'm a Catholic wife, writer & producer, and I work from home on a prayer ministry I run with my husband. I also write about, and share, some of the best things I find about living an authentic Catholic life as a woman & wife.
