Nov 8, 2022 | Encountering Signs of Faith
My go-to devotion is the Cloak of St Joseph, and I prefer good deed bead bracelets or other one-decade rosary tools to pray my rosary. I’ve been forever changed by a few experiences with relics from two of my favorite saints,St. John Paul II and St. Padre Pio.... 
Nov 8, 2022 | Encountering Signs of Faith
When I was a little girl, I had this keen awareness of how blessed I was to be Catholic. I don’t remember learning that my Catholicism was a gift, but deep down, I knew it was. What’s amazing about this is that growing up, I didn’t have a very strong Catholic... 
Nov 7, 2022 | Encountering Signs of Faith
Most of us will hear a “word” from God only a few times in our lives. For me, one of those most pivotal times was the moment I discovered my 43-year-old husband, Ray, unconscious and unbreathing on our family room floor. God will provide. God will be glorified.... 
Nov 6, 2022 | Encountering Signs of Faith
I’m not sure when it came into my possession to keep and to one day pass along as a legacy of hope. But for as far as my distant memory will reach back, a small gold reliquary the size of a small locket sat perched high atop the tallest shelf in my parents’... 
Nov 5, 2022 | Encountering Signs of Faith
I love observing kids with their grandparents, probably because I have little to no experience with those relationships. My grandparents—all four of them—were deceased before my parents even married. My own children had little time with their grandparents. My oldest...
