1. Leave the house looking like a disaster victim You secretly watched other mothers with unkept hair and tired eyes and thought, “A little makeup would help. A shower, maybe?” That was before you were a mother. Now you show up at a Starbucks date with your best friend and...
One of the things I’ve found most refreshing about Catholic culture is the understanding of the importance of modesty. Though each woman may have different ideas about exactly what it means to be modest, there is a general agreement that putting forth some level of conscious effort to avoid...
I was sitting on a bean bag in my dorm room when I got the call. It was a friend of mine — let’s call her “Sara” — and she was sobbing so hard it took me a moment to know who it was. Finally, she pulled herself together enough to...
1. Your parents pay for your wedding…and your honeymoon. You’re both broke. Your new-to-be husband scraped together the cash for a diamond ring while working nights as a valet. But who cares? You’re thrilled. You’re off to Jamaica on your in-laws dime, because otherwise there would...
The great 4th century deacon and hymn-writer St. Ephrem of Syria meditated on the great paradox of the Son of God nursing at the breast of his human mother: When [Jesus] sucked the milk of Mary, He was suckling all with Life. While He was lying on His Mother’s...
