This House You're Building

Category: Rome is Home

  • Day 3: I Can Just Be Me

    Every Sunday night, including this one, I come home grateful for my job at St. Agnes no matter how awesome or how challenging it may have been. Even with the crosses I bear on a weekly basis at work, I am truly blessed to be here and I am so privileged to be able to…

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  • Reminder

    Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did. —St. Maximilian Kolbe

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  • Holy Saturday Reflection

    Good things come to those who wait. Just like this white Easter lily… Though I already know how beautifully bloomed it be, I await its complete opening, faithfully. All in its own time; It cannot be rushed. It opens in silence. In stillness. Slowly……..but surely. I am waiting for Jesus, like I wait for this pure…

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  • You are invited…

    While living in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia last year, I made a goal to discover some of their local and hidden gems. Two top kinds of places on my list included coffee shops and bookstores. No chain coffee shops or bookstore franchises; I wanted to go to someplace different, someplace unique. On one…

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  • The Protector

    Ever since I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2010, one devotion that grew in fervor was to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Having the blessed opportunity to stay in Nazareth for a few days of that pilgrimage and visiting sacred sites such as the home of the Blessed Mother…

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