Happy Friday, friends! 💕 Way back in July, we talked about Saints Joachim and Anne — the quiet, faithful couple who raised Mary. This week, we finally get to celebrate the day their story truly began: Mary's own birthday. There are only three birthdays the whole Church celebrates on her calendar — Jesus, Mary, and John the Baptist. Everyone else's feast day marks the day they died and entered h...

Happy Friday, friends! 🎉 Today the Church celebrates one of the most hope-filled stories in her history — and it started with a mother's tears. Yesterday was the feast of St. Monica, and today is the feast of her son, St. Augustine, whose conversion after years of his mother's prayer became one of the great turning points in Christian history. If you're praying for someone right now — a spouse,...

Happy Friday, friends! ✨ Last week we made flower crowns to honor Mary being taken up to heaven — and this week, the Church shows us exactly why that crown fits her: because on August 22, we celebrate Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth. It's a beautiful, gentle "closing" to the feast we celebrated together just one week ago. But here's the lovely twist: Mary's queenship doesn't look like thrones...