What the Incarnation means for a bride of Christ
During my college years, the mystery of the Incarnation ceased to be just a historical event and instead became a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. I would have never dreamed…
To find Jesus, we must first be found ourselves
“I found Him! I found Jesus!” A few years ago, I was praying in a small chapel during Christmas when a toddler ran right up to the manger and triumphantly…
The Advent book every woman should read
How many Christmas cards portray an image of the Holy Family as the snow falls gently at Jesus’ Nativity? And there we see Mary, the Mother of God, nestled right…
Becoming empty like Mary this Advent
In the darkest hours of the morning when it seems that even the moon has gone to sleep, I am often awake with my daughter. As my tired arms hold…
Come, let us adore with song
In a year when we are unable to worship in our churches in the same vibrant and musical way of seasons past, making time for liturgical music may just be…
Embracing failure in Advent
Every year, Christmas comes. It may find me kicking and screaming, curled up in the corner frantically wrapping and sweating and wondering how it happened to come so fast. In…
A thrill of hope
Walking to the back of the Church, I am completely exhausted though we’ve only made it to the homily. My one-and-a-half-year-old is pulling incessantly at my shirt demanding milk. I…
Having faith like Eve during Advent
Have you ever thought about what it must have been like for Eve after the Fall? She’d blown it, for sure. All because of that apple, and the desire that…
Visio Divina: What Mary’s first Advent teaches us
As the winds sweep away the last traces of autumn, we gaze upon the flickering flame of a purple candle and turn within ourselves. Advent is a time of bare-hay…
