In May, I gave birth to our beautiful son, Joseph. In this short-lived adventure of parenthood, I have been filled with many emotions, but the one that caught me the…
READ: Luke 21: 25-28; 34-36 Jesus said to his disciples: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay,…
Every year on Thanksgiving Day, my family gathers for Turkey Bowl. We started this flag-football tradition my freshman year of college, complete with a huge trophy and Filipino flag-themed jerseys.…
I was barely a teenager when my older brother came home from seminary and introduced our family to Marian consecration. We already had a deep devotion to the Mother of…
Growing up, I fell in love with the saints as I listened to the stories my parents would read to me many nights before bed. In learning about their lives,…
The Season to Embrace At different times in life God seems to shower blessings on us. These are times we feel pure happiness. Prayer is distinctively fruitful, school or work…
"We were made for love. We were made for labor. And we were made for leisure." Leisure? What?!? Did I hear that correctly? That was my initial reaction when I…
I've never really been good at the whole going with the flow thing. I'm such a goal oriented person that I like to recognize what I want and then take…
I have many small pet peeves, and one of them is a phrase you hear all the time. You know the one. It goes something like, "Oh just do what…
A while back I was talking with a friend of mine who is an amateur photographer. I had recently bought a camera so decided to pick his brain since I…