By Sarah Streitwieser The Joy that Mary and Joseph experience when they find Jesus in the temple is not unique to them. Rather, it is…
By Sarah Streitwieser The story of finding Jesus in the temple leads me to wonder about all of the other stories and intricacies of Jesus’s…
By Sarah Streitwieser Obedience is another virtue that seems to be no longer in vogue among secular social ideals. For most, the thought of obeying…
By Sarah Streitwieser The Presentation marks another mystery in which Mary is the recipient of lively, weighty, and (presumably) unexpected conversation. In each early moment…
By Sarah Streitwieser Detachment is the spiritual fruit that is associated with the mystery of the Nativity. But what exactly is detachment, and how does…
By Sarah Streitwieser Do you ever find it difficult to imagine the Nativity with fresh eyes and an open heart? Does it seem particularly challenging…
By Sarah Streitwieser In last weeks’ blog entry I mentioned that somehow between many “failed” rosary praying attempts and regimens, I began learning this one…
When I first started praying the rosary, I have to admit that I initially felt a bit underwhelmed by most of the suggested meditation points…
It wasn’t until I was well into my journey of learning to pray the Rosary that I discovered that each mystery is associated with a…
As a child I thought that pie crusts only came in preformed aluminum pie plates. It wasn’t until my late teens that I first tasted…