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May 2015

May 01, 2015

5 Things I’ve Learned About Holiness In the Convent

When I entered the convent I had a pretty self-confident, completely unsophisticated idea of what...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

That Christ May Live in Me: A Retreat for Young Women

The Daughters of St. Paul are holding a discernment retreat led by Sr. Margaret Michael...

April 27, 2015

That Loving Gaze: How a Wedding Inspired a Future Seminarian

I’m entering seminary in a month. In March, you could already find me joking about...

April 23, 2015

How Our Weaknesses Shape Our Discernment

People have different levels of awareness of their faults and sinfulness, but almost all of...

April 20, 2015

What Is Life Like in the Seminary? A Video Vignette…

Wonder what life is like for men preparing to become priests? Check out this short...

April 15, 2015

Got Character? Baptism and Consecrated Life

When I was about six years old my father took me on an errand and...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Lent is Like a Freezer: What Lenten Lesson Have You Learned?

Lent can be a cold, dark freezer if we don't let Jesus in to live...

March 16, 2015

Too Pretty to Be a Nun: Terrifying Doubts Beneath Christian Life

To dedicate one’s youth, looks, smarts, strength, and gifts to something other than ourselves is...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Ten Gifts Ideas for Religious Priests, Nuns, Sisters, etc

It's hard to buy something for the person who has everything. It is even more...

December 17, 2014

Some Points on the “Nuns versus the Vatican” Report

People are responding in different ways to the Vatican's Apostolic Visitation report that ends a...

December 11, 2014

Priests Being Awesome: Top Five Rapping Priests

It makes me happy to see priests rap. And skateboard. And tap dance. And slam...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

A Real Sister’s Take on #TheSisterhood

I was going to write something about the new show on Lifetime about discerning a vocation...

November 19, 2014

Nuns Don’t Grow on Trees

"Nuns don't grow on trees." So says Sr. Helena Burns FSP who is trying to...

November 10, 2014

The Beauty of a Tattooed Monk

The image of this tattooed man in a monk's robe was something beautiful to behold.

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Arleen Spenceley Interviews the Coolest Nun Ever.

Arleen Spenceley, author of the soon-to-be-released book Chastity is for Lovers asked me if she could...