What do you know about Catholic Prayer?
Prayer is essential to the spiritual life and growing closer to Christ.
There are so many different types of prayer in Catholicism! Take this quiz and see how much you know about prayer.
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Category: Meditations
When You Don’t Really Like God’s Plan for Your Life
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I don’t always like God’s plans for my life.
I don’t always accept or understand redemptive suffering.
Whenever I hear the story of the mother in 2 Maccabees who “encouraged one another [her 7 sons] to die nobly” I’m perplexed (2 Maccabees 7).
Whenever I hear the story of St. Jose Sanchez del Rio, a young boy of 13 who went into battle and was martyred for Christ, a part of my heart recoils (Holy Heroes Glory Story).
It’s hard for me to accept redemptive suffering in my life:
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Do You Know Why Names are Important?
A funny phrase popped into my head recently: “The Theology of a Name.”
You might be wondering what I mean by that… and I’m not sure I really know either!
But the bottom line is: names are important.
But why do I say the “theology” of a name, instead of just the “importance” of a name? Because God reveals himself to us by name. The Father, the First Person of the Trinity: “I am.” The Son, the Second person of the Blessed Trinity: “Jesus.”
The more I think about the beauty and importance and power of his name, the more I think God is teaching us something about how names reveal the identity of the one named, and how this applies to each of us.
And that’s what I want to dig into a little bit, today!
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Why You Need to Call Your Friends Today
“A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter, he that has found one has found a treasure.” Sirach 6:14.
Do you struggle with friendship?
The older generation has a lot to teach us.
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Learning Not to Be Surprised by Suffering
Christians, are you suffering right now?
And does this suffering surprise you?
As followers of Christ, with him as our example, we must know that the Cross is necessary for salvation, that suffering is part of living life in his footsteps.
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In the Wake of the Storm, Rebuild Your Life on the Rock of Christ
It’s easy to do good things in fair weather.
Look at these two men in the parable of the house on the rock.
Notice: they both built houses!
Up until the storm, both these men appeared to be living good lives.
They built good things, they did good work, their outward actions seemed to be the same.
But there was something very different about their two lives…
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You Don’t Get to Choose Your Truth, Your Morality, or You-do-You
When Catholics Don’t Act Like Christians
I once had a protestant friend tell me, “You’re the first Catholic I’ve known that actually lives a Christian lifestyle.”
I was really taken aback.
It’s heartbreaking to me to think that so many Catholics profess the faith but aren’t living it out.
We’re all called to be witnesses to Christ.
We’re called to be in the world but not of it.
And that can be really really really difficult.
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Wear Your Faith on Your Sleeve: The Best Catholic T-Shirts
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You all know how much I love my Catholic t-shirt collection!
What better way to wear your faith on your sleeve than to literally wear your faith… on your sleeves?
I wear my Catholic t-shirts with anything from jeans to skirts. On messy-bun days, and on makeup days. (But not on Sundays! Sundays are fancy days!)
They are the perfect evangelization tool everywhere I go.
Today I wanted to tell you about some of my current favorite Catholic t-shirts.
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We Need a Little Joy Right Now
When this whole covid thing went down, I was one of those (perhaps slightly obnoxious) “living my best life” people.
I enjoyed having my husband home, slowing down, extra time for prayer, doing fun at-home projects with the kids.
Being without the Mass was hard (real hard) but we had Adoration in churches nearby!
But now, with things opening up again but *still* not being back to normal – I’m starting to feel worn down.
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