PMS and the imprints of fruitfulness
On a recent morning, I was in the throes of PMS (sometimes this verges on its more severe form, PMDD). I was tired after a restless night...
On a recent morning, I was in the throes of PMS (sometimes this verges on its more severe form, PMDD). I was tired after a restless night...
Lisa and I met and started dating in March of 1985. We have been married for 35 years. We are both cradle Catholics and active in our...
When you're stuck in the muck of the messiness that infertility brings, it is hard to see the light. It may feel like your feet and heart...
I’ve always been pro-life. When I was in grade school I was even part of a “students for life” club. We prayed outside of abortion clinics..
Lectio Divina (aka “divine reading”) is a traditional Church approach to praying with scripture in a personal way. There are a number of...
We were in front of the cathedral. It was nearing midnight. The air was crisp, I could see my breath. I was in need of physical healing...
On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..
Bacon and chocolate, salt and caramel, ice cream and french fries, and a friendship between an infertile woman and a woman with two surprise
We believe that sex needs to be talked about more in the Catholic Church so that fewer couples feel alone on their journey. To open up...
From that point on, there was a shift in my prayers. I had been praying for a baby but after this encounter, I started praying for the...
“He’s God of the hills and valleys.” (Tauren Wells) While listening to the Sunday readings one day (Luke 17:5-10… faith the size of a musta
The nine days of prayer is considered to be the first novena, which took place in the time period between the Ascension and Pentecost.
We understand that Mothers’ Day can be difficult for couples experiencing infertility, loss, or any hard road to growing their family...
Perhaps your sister, daughter or friend has shared with you that she and her husband are going through infertility and you want to know...
The dead blooms of last year clung right beside the new buds which brimmed with possibility for the spring ahead. I did not see the roses...
Our priest talked about how sin results in death – a moral death and existential death. Moral death in a person causes confusion, and the..
The side effects from medications and then feeling like an experiment at times would just become too much. I remember crying when an...
There have been so many times in the depths of my grief when I felt as if I, too, was hanging on to that single thread. After my losses...
As we begin Lent, I find myself being led to this moving icon of Christ by one favorite Dominican, Blessed Fra Angelico. Art has always...
Is there anything that more closely resembles the journey of infertility than the season of Lent? 40 long days alone in the desert, being...