Three Dreamy Reads
January 22, 2021
I didn’t know what I wanted to “do” when I “grew up,” but I knew one constant in my life had been a love of reading and writing, so I chose English Literature.
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The Little Things
As Advent dawns, I can feel my stress level rising. It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness and to forget the reason for the season.
Amy Schluterman
December 1, 2020
A North Star in Midwest Ohio
The shout of “I see the steeples!” brings more than a silly adrenaline rush now; it brings the nostalgia of feeling entirely safe and known.
Rachel Simpson
November 30, 2020
Home Church
My home parish is located in a small town in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It wasn’t one that is obviously aesthetically beautiful. Its community life wasn’t notably stellar. Growing up, I would have never described myself as particularly attached.
Regina Donahue
November 27, 2020
St. Catherine of Alexandria
St. Catherine of Alexandria is a beautiful witness for each of us in her example of total surrender and complete devotion to her faith.
Betsy Donlon
November 25, 2020
Baby Pool Baptism
We assumed we would hold our heads over the font and he would trickle a little water over our heads. No. That’s not good enough.
Daniel Green
November 23, 2020
Christ the King
Christ the King is the name of the parish where I grew up in Des Moines, IA. It’s actually a fairly simple church with a brick exterior and a wooden beam interior.
Teri Nisser
November 22, 2020
Our Lady the Undoer
Sometimes I am disgusted at the rope I bring to her, the rope of my life, full of more huge knots than I care to count.
Kristen Hamill
November 21, 2020
America’s Catholic Church
To a three-year-old little boy, the “big church” is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Brooke Glover
November 20, 2020
When the Firemen Walked to Church
While visiting her hometown of Little Rock, AR, my mom would often bring me back to her childhood church, St. Edward, which was inhabited by German immigrants in the late 1800s.
Angela Green
November 19, 2020