A village of women is not only found, it is formed by those willing to be one first. Scripture tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:9–10,  "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up."

I was trying to achieve my definition of holiness by controlling our journey with Jesus to His Cross, instead of allowing Jesus to lead the way by asking me to embrace my daily mortifications.

I like to think of ordo amoris as the ripple effect after a stone has been thrown into water. When our love is rightly ordered, our capacity to love expands as each ripple gets bigger.