Cloister Garden

“I don't think the Lord wants me in Kentucky anymore,” I told my dad over the phone. “But how can I give up my job?”

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“Our life here isn’t natural,” Sr. Emma, the vocational director, had told us. “It’s super-natural.”

I was on my way to retreat with the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia.

The Lord gazed back at me silently from His place of repose. He gave me no sign; He didn’t need to. I already knew what I had to do.

When I returned to Kentucky after Easter, the Lord gave me no sign I should enter a convent. Instead, He sent me Aidan.

My new job as a housekeeper at a local Catholic retreat center started three weeks ago! I love that I have so much to keep me on my feet...

Kentucky was the last place I lived before entering the convent. Every detail of my life here helped prepare me for entrance day.

I had it all: great job, posh apartment, new friends. I felt confident in myself, and pretty. But what was happening to Mary on the inside?

I was like my friend Jim: even with such a generous speed limit, I wanted more. Not so much miles per hour, but more out of my life.

It’s time to renew! This month marks the anniversary of this website as well as the chapter of my adventure story with Jesus which...

When we are faced with the darkness and isolation of this past year, what will we choose? How can we find our own light in the darkness?

Now that my husband was home, it was time to have our baby!

This year, we wouldn't just be reflecting on the mystery of Christ's suffering, death, and resurrection. My husband and I were living it out

Our baby girl would be born in that pandemic darkness, but she would not stay there.

This morning, being the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, my morning reflections turned toward the Angelus Prayer, which is...

As we welcomed in 2019, my husband and I agreed upon our New Year’s Resolution: to try for a second child.

Because Jesus is God and outside of space and time, His Life continues to be lived, mysteriously, in each of His followers.

Like Abraham, “who went out, not knowing where he was to go,” (Hebrews 11:8), I was embarking on a journey with an unknown endpoint.

Last Friday, I had planned to take advantage of my parish's newly erected out door Stations of the Cross before my hour of silent...