In our all-mighty God's humility, He became man so that we may understand that it is precisely in the vulnerability of our smallness that we can grow and flourish as a child of God.

Mary felt humbled to participate in God’s plan to save His people. She wanted only what God wanted. Her heart was full of thanksgiving and praise…

Why is Judith's story recounted on Marian feasts? Because in St Augustine's words, In the Old Testament, the New is concealed, in the New the Old is revealed. Judith could be considered a "type" of Mary…Her virtue, God's will for her life, and Judith's obedience points us to Mary.

Throughout Jesus’s ministry, He established the Church so that after His death and Ascension all people could still encounter Him as the path to heaven. Through His Kingdom, we are saved!

The psalms emanate a gentle scent of home and a holy nostalgia for the intimate moments of family life. When I curl up with these prayers and a hot cup of coffee, I am overwhelmed by the reality that these verses are the same that filled the air within the Holy Family's home.

As Catholics, we are called to imitate the life of Christ by living His commands to love God and love our neighbor, honoring the dignity of every person we encounter with great humility.

A garden is created by a gardener for a purpose—seeds are planted to someday flourish. For this garden, the seeds are gifts, talents, and virtue and the Gardener, is our Lord.

As much as I have romantic ideas of living back in the 1830s and making shortcakes on a colonial farm, God wanted me for a different time. You and me — He chose us for today.

The School of Love is our home—the domestic church—and within this school YOU are their most important teacher! It is within family life, where parents are entrusted with the role to teach their children how to protect and promote the dignity of the human person according to God's will.

Each Sunday, on our knees, we hear the words of Christ: "This is my body which will be given for you," and before our eyes, a miracle beyond our comprehension takes place—His Body and Blood is before us, ready to restore us to new life.

Family meals are a part of God's design for the health of the domestic church and affirm the dignity of the human person—I have God's Word on this one. How do I know? The Church teaches us that…

In the spirit of St. Theresa of Avila, since it is her feast day, we are inviting you to create a prayer table in your home! A prayer table is a visual reminder to praise God and enter into conversation with His heart.

Years later, I learned about "Spiritual Adoption." The Venerable Fulton Sheen encouraged the faithful to "spiritually adopt" an unborn child in danger of being aborted and their parents. Sheen proclaimed with the holy boldness he is so well known for that this prayer—this intentional action of the heart—would save lives. It did. It saved my son—and me.

As parents, we answer big questions best by planting seeds early, but it is never too late to begin. St. Therese’s “little way” encourages us as parents to embrace every opportunity in our day-to-day to pour Christ’s love and truth into the heart of our home.

We make up the Body of Christ—when we offer our suffering in union with the Cross, our own sufferings gain in redemptive power.

It is Him who reaches down and picks up our broken pieces for as long as we have pieces to pick up, and Him who loves us even when we struggle to love ourselves. It is Him who heals our broken hearts, Him who binds up our wounds, and Him who rolls up His sleeves and helps us clean our mess.

As parents, when we navigate conversations about the dignity of the human person with our child, we cannot exclude addressing the dimension of sorrow that so often is a companion on our journey.

God gives us the dignity of participating in His plan of salvation—the dignity of true choice. Like Mary, each of us must choose to give our “yes” to the invitation before us—but yes is hard.

When we look at the startling number of 61,000,000+ abortions in the U.S. since Roe v Wade or consider the 1,000,000 abandoned frozen embryos in labs throughout the country, must ask ourselves, “How did we get here?!” …

Silence is hard. Especially when we pray and don’t hear God’s response.