Mary, Mold and Model
She walks with us and shows us how to stay close to Jesus.
Who is the number one exemplar, or model, that the Spirit uses to inspire us? It is Jesus, of course. But Jesus cannot model response to Jesus! Continue »
We Remember Mother Teresa
What we can learn from the “saint of Calcutta”
In 2007, a new book about Mother Teresa was published, grabbing headlines and causing people around the world to look at her in a completely new light. Continue »
A Saint for the Sandwich Generation
St. Monica learned holiness as she dealt with more than one difficult relative.
Tourists on a glorious spring day in 2003, my husband and I took a short metro ride to the outskirts of Rome to Ostia Antica, the ruins of a once great port city. For several hours we roamed this large, preserved site of antiquity. Continue »
Compelled by Love
The Life and Legacy of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
In the year 1112, a bright young nobleman embarked on an adventure that pioneered new paths—politically, socially, and spiritually—throughout Western Europe. Continue »
“What Is Your Will for Me, O God?”
St. Jane de Chantal
“I await your plan. I want to live only for you.” Easy for a saint to say? Continue »
Living under the Mystery of the Cross
The Story of St. Edith Stein
On August 2, 1942, the German S.S. stormed a Carmelite convent in Echt, Holland, and demanded that one of its nuns, Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, be handed over immediately, along with her sister Rosa. Continue »