Comfort In Christ Falling
Multiple times I have written about the struggles of being a goal-oriented person, about the difficulty in surrendering when my first instinct is to try and plan my life down to the minute, to try to...
View ArticleParents Triumphant: Two Stories of Holiness
Yesterday, the Church celebrated a plethora of saintly feast days. Two of those saints were Anne and Joachim, the humble parents of Christ’s Blessed Mother. In honor of their great feast day, I would...
View ArticleFive Books for Summer
Summer officially started last week, which means the annual sale on beach paperbacks has begun. But since many of the quick-read bestsellers are not exactly the best “food for the soul”, I’d like to...
View ArticleThe Top Five Ways to -NOT- Grow in Emotional Purity
After listening to a great talk issued by Lighthouse Catholic Media’s new young adult line, Truth be Told, I found myself greatly in need of an emotional chastity makeover. The talk, entitled “Why Do...
View ArticleNot Alone: “Just Friends?”
The dreaded phrase, “I think it would be better if we were just friends“, has been feared by teenagers for decades. The fear that, after professing love for a girl, she’ll look at him and whip out...
View ArticleOpening Hands
Before I left for college, I wrote about how my tendency to control and plan every aspect of my life often hurt more than it helped, leaving me frustrated and stressed because I was counting on my own...
View ArticleOpen the Door…
A reflection written in the midst of my first semester of college… Flirting starts based off of an initial attraction: a girl notices a guy, likes what she sees, and starts playfully teasing him in an...
View ArticleSomeone, Please, Like Me…
“Stockholm syndrome, individuals’ desperate attempts to become like their captors. On a lesser scale it was why good German citizens followed Hitler, Ryan said. Or why any person might compromise his...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Should Just “Let It Go”
After watching Disney’s extremely popular and highly controversial Frozen for the third time last night, I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone- bloggers, movie reviewers, and Facebook moms...
View ArticleGod Only Helps Whom?
Have you ever heard the story of the man who prayed that God would save him in a flood? He stood on top of his roof, praying that God would save him. Three different rescue teams tried, and when each...
View ArticleReconsider the Chapel Veil
Over the summer my dear friend and roommate put together a gorgeous video about why many Catholic women are returning to the old custom of wearing a chapel veil to Mass. I personally started wearing a...
View ArticleCrawling to Heaven
If studying the saints has taught me anything, it is that there are many ways to travel the narrow road to Heaven. While some lived shorter lives which were filled with spiritual difficulties, but...
View ArticleHelpful Advent Links
Advent is my favorite liturgical season. I become extremely excited when Advent is coming, and love observing it by wearing my purple “Advent scarves,” painting my nails to mirror the Advent wreath,...
View ArticleNew Year’s Dreams
The shiftiness of college years does not always create the best circumstances for keeping New Year’s Resolutions. Though I hardly ever pass up an opportunity to make a list, my typical resolutions...
View ArticleWhen Waiting is Really Hard
In reaction to the increasing physical immorality spreading through society today, and in an attempt to counter the message constantly being sold through advertising, movies, music, and even...
View ArticlePatience in the Desert
For forty days Christ suffered in the desert, fasting and depriving Himself of comfort, choosing to undergo hardship and temptation for the sake of teaching us the importance of fortitude, penance, and...
View ArticleWriting Within the Word?
Ever since childhood I was always taught to treat the Bible with a certain amount of respect. This included never setting it on the bare floor, but always on top of something; never tossing or...
View ArticleWomen, God Does Not Make Mistakes
In a society which tells women they are simply the sum of their parts—that all it takes for even a man to become a cover-worthy woman are the right curves in the right places—women are having an...
View ArticleThe Necessary Virtue of Hope
During any phase of transition, the importance of the theological virtues of faith and love are always emphasized. One is counseled to have faith that God will bring the best result out of the...
View ArticlePope Francis Remakes the Vatican?
The August 2015 edition of The National Geographic Magazine features a lengthy article on Pope Francis, written by Robert Draper after six months of observing the life of the Holy Father, featuring...
View ArticlePope Francis is Human
Last month I wrote a post analyzing the National Geographic cover story entitled “Pope Francis Remakes the Vatican”. I read the article skeptically, expecting to come away feeling frustrated with...
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