“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
This week’s must-reads: + “If you feel for whatever reason that you cannot manage, abandon yourself in God, telling him: Lord, I trust in you, I abandon myself in you, but do help me in my weakness!” — The Forge, 287 + “There’s a...
“Offering it up: the necessary attitude isn’t joy — it’s love, and trust.”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + One of my favorite reflections on St. Joseph, particularly the part about surrendering his own dreams and plans to do God’s will (something maybe some of us can relate to?): “Joseph’s prayerful silence was the...
“Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.” (St. Jane Frances de Chantal)
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “To the woman who feels like she’s lost herself— Maybe life has been heavy. Maybe you’ve been giving so much of yourself to others that you’ve forgotten who you are. Maybe you look in the mirror and wonder where you went....
The motto of Saints Louis & Zélie Martin: “God is served first”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him and was deeply moved…” (from The Prodigal Son) // Maybe we all begin Lent “a long way off,” but think of the Father and how He has...
“Lent invites us to recognize that our home is in heaven”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “Whatever you choose to focus on this Lent, remember that God desires a relationship with you. He loves you. He does not want you to suffer for the sake of suffering, he wants you to grow closer to Him and He wants you to...
“May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love…”
Here are this week’s must-reads: “I have spent too many years trying to prove my worth by doing more, being more, achieving more. But every time I measure myself by the world’s standards, I come up empty. Jesus reminds me that true greatness...
The must ordinary & mundane everyday tasks can become sacred
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “Can we discover the most mundane duties in life as somehow sacred? Do we see the glimpses of joy in the Lord’s eyes during his quiet, humble years toiling in an everyday life in Nazareth? Do we believe he cares...
“God’s love is the sort of love we need in our marriages: merciful, compassionate, generous…”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “Sometimes we are living a slow working miracle. But just because it’s long in coming doesn’t mean God isn’t working. He’s always, always, always doing something… good, powerful, breathtaking. And in the waiting, we...
“When you sign up for marriage, you sign up to serve.”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + I read a few short excerpts of love letters St. Gianna and her husband Pietro exchanged before they were married, and it was so moving and inspiring. They both shared the desire to love their future spouse well — to be...
“Best part about Ordinary Time? Is that there is nothing ordinary about it…Jesus shows up in the “everyday’”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “There is a beautiful tradition among Croatian Catholics on their wedding day. In one town, not one single divorce has been recorded among its thirteen thousand Catholics in more than 50 years… Their “secret” to marital...
“Jesus takes the simple and makes it sacred”
Here are this week’s must-reads: + “Do the work so God can do the miracle.’ It’s something a priest said over 3 years ago at a dinner for married couples, and we remember it every time the wedding at Cana comes up. Jesus told the servers to fill 6...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.
