’Tis the season … to support your favorite Catholic small businesses! Every year, I love exploring the many incredible Catholic-owned businesses and shops in order to craft this gift guide….
Growing up, one of my favorite Advent and Christmas traditions was reading from “The Advent Book” with my family. It was through this beautifully illustrated board book that I returned…
There are many traditions in the Advent and Christmas season that my husband and I have together and that we love sharing with our two young daughters. Some are from…
As the surrounding trees lost their golden leaves, my sister-in-law swayed near the group of our family, gently rocking my infant nephew in her carrier. The rest of us warmed…
In case all of the Christmas decor that’s been up in stores for at least a month hasn’t clued you in yet, here’s your reminder that Jesus’ birthday is right…
Hurry. Decorate. Shop. Celebrate. Collapse. By the time Dec. 26 rolls around, you’re glad the radio has stopped playing Christmas carols. If you’ve ever encountered the holidays this way (or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
