Deepening Love: Reflecting on the Words of Elisabeth Leseur

Deepening Love: Reflecting on the Words of Elisabeth Leseur

“To think is excellent To pray is better To love is everything.” -Elisabeth Leseur  Our intellect is a beautiful gift from God; the ability to think and reason should be cherished and well attended to.   What are you doing today to tend to your mental well being? Do...
This Christmas Focus on Receiving

This Christmas Focus on Receiving

Is it better to give or to receive?  So stands the famed question of old that so often serves as the moral of many a children’s fable. But as I thought about this question during my Advent reflections, I found myself wondering: am I able to receive?   You don’t have...
June Belongs to a Humble Heart

June Belongs to a Humble Heart

  “Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love.” -Christ to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque  The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus —Christ, who...
20 Unique Lenten Ideas

20 Unique Lenten Ideas

Can you believe Lent is just around the corner? It’s only two weeks away! Instead of coming up with a last minute game plan, carve out some time and reflect on what you can do to ensure that this Lenten season is truly a time of growth, holiness, and penitence. ...
Abandoning the Comfortable Christ

Abandoning the Comfortable Christ

Christ’s life is a demand. You don’t want to be reminded of it. So we don’t have to see what happens to the truth. A darker time is coming when men will be more clever. They won’t fight the truth, they’ll just ignore it. I paint their...
What if I am Not a Good Spouse?

What if I am Not a Good Spouse?

Something is disorienting about marriage. You take two wildly different human beings, with excruciatingly different upbringings, who possess so many unique nuances and join them together.  Cue bliss and romance and awe, until suddenly you realize you are yoked with...
Fiat: Better Than Whatever

Fiat: Better Than Whatever

Fiat mihi secundum verbum Tuum + Be it done unto me according to Thy word1​ Reach back into the archives of childhood, and find a time that you really, really wanted something, but it was denied you. Perhaps you still feel the ache of disappointment as you relive that...