Making room for mercy in friendships
As Catholic Christians, we are familiar with the Lord’s command to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. While it might not be easy, we can easily…
Making the most of your single years
Being single can be a heavy cross to bear, especially when many of your friends are married and have children. For me, I’m at the point in life where women…
A message of hope for teens and young adults struggling to find their way
Twenty-five-year-old Monet Sousa is on a mission to share the message of hope with the world. She grew up in a family culture that lived out their Catholic faith boldly…
What holy friendships really depend on
Before becoming Catholic, I was in talk therapy. The therapist gave me plenty of information about setting boundaries with others without telling me how to carry this out in a…
What I learned from my local Buy Nothing Group
In 2019, my husband and I bought our first home. We were excited to get to know our neighbors and put down roots in a community. But by the time…
3 ways to battle comparison in your friendships that actually work
“She has everything and looks so happy,” I thought to myself as I scrolled through Instagram at 3 a.m. My newborn daughter was up for yet another feeding, and instead…
Dancing to a different tune than the devil
Over the past year, humankind has been made to, in many ways, deny a piece of us that is absolutely vital to our flourishing. The pandemic has separated, isolated and…
Our neighbors are not hypotheticals
I miss the days when my social media feed was filled with cute baby pictures and videos of life hacks that I would never actually remember to use. Today, my…
Lessons from the garden: God’s love for us
During the pandemic, I have been grateful to be able to work at home from my garden in Brooklyn, thanks to good wifi and my colleagues’ high tolerance for background…
7 ways friendships change after college (and why that’s normal)
After I graduated college, got married, moved to a new city and started a new job (all in one month!), I realized that making friends after graduation was much different…