Your vocation is more than a uniform
Would you rather get up in the middle of the night for a crying baby or for the monastic bells? This question was posed to me in high school as…
Would you rather get up in the middle of the night for a crying baby or for the monastic bells? This question was posed to me in high school as…
Where I live, it is dark by 4 in the afternoon come December. As a child, like many children, I was afraid of the dark. So my siblings and I…
“When our own spiritual lives bear fruit, we become filled with joy, which is the clearest sign of faith’s grandeur.” The above quote is one of my favorite lines from…
My love language is skies. This works, I like to quip, when you’re dating the God of the Universe — and Our Lord has never tired of giving me glorious…
On Divine Mercy Sunday, in the throes of my final semester of my undergraduate years, I asked a priest friend if he could hear my confession. We met on the…
Smiling. Unborn babies have been caught on ultrasounds doing it, your 90-year-old grandmother does it when she wins a game of bingo, and you (hopefully) do it every day. The…
As a single Catholic woman discerning her vocation, time and time again I have struggled with figuring out where I belong in the Catholic Church. Where does someone like me…
Each February on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Feb. 2), the Church celebrates World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life. In honor of this day of prayer,…
When was the last time you sought out a challenge? Maybe it was learning to bake that complicated sourdough braid, or running a marathon, or reading a thick classic novel,…
Sister Miriam James Heidland is a former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) in 1998….