One hot Tuesday afternoon, my 4-year-old daughter and I were sitting in the front pew of the little Oratory, just a few miles down the road. I've mentioned before that I live in the middle of nowhere, so naturally, this Oratory does as well. At an intersection where two county roads meet, a few small houses, a blacksmith shop, and the Oratory greet you. If you happen to blink, you wouldn't even notice the "town," but it's a very special place to the locals who are proud of their gorgeous...

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...