This past week, Hannah, Abby, and I got together to record our July podcast. It was so fun to get the three of us together for the first time in months! We had some ideas of things we wanted to talk about, but somehow managed to focus on the Eucharist, which was kind of funny, because it was nowhere on the agenda! We all, at one point, remarked how Jesus sure wanted His Eucharistic Heart to be known, because it wasn’t planned on our part! Hannah shared her experience serving on the...

Grace is something that I really can't wrap my mind around. It feels so abstract to me. I hear people whip out that word all the time: "Give yourself grace." "Pray for the grace to..." "You get graces for..." As a cradle Catholic, grace was probably one of the first words to come out of my mouth. Yet I'm over here, way older than I will publicly admit, and it's still a little fuzzy. Grace started to come into focus a little clearer when I was homeschooling. The Catholic curriculum I used did...

Having been married for 16 years now, it seems like a lifetime ago that my dear husband courted me. And though many years have passed, I can still fondly remember the thrill of being pursued. To be recklessly pursued by one who loved me so much that he was willing to risk everything to ask me to be his bride. We were just kids back then, so naturally, there was much opposition to our settling down at such a young age. But we didn’t let their thoughts and opinions sway us, and we...