When my husband and I purchased our first home last year—a single-family colonial in an idyllic planned community—we were excited to decorate indoors and out...
Author - Nicole M. Perone
In the Disney film Encanto, the Madrigal family’s story begins when Abuela and Abuelo flee civil war in their home country of Colombia. Abuelo sacrifices...
Readings (Year B): Isaiah 50:5–9Psalm 116:1–9James 2:14–18Mark 8:27–35 Reflection: Faith without works is dead When I was in high school, my youth group...
On a beautiful day in the early summer of 2018, I was puttering around my apartment and getting ready for a parish visit. I was content in my work at an...
My husband and I married on a Saturday at the end of April, early in the Easter season and on the weekend dedicated to Divine Mercy. Connecticut was in full...
In March 2020, when much of the United States entered some iteration of lockdown or quarantine (and in some places never really left that state), I accepted...
My husband, John, and I are newly married and also new residents of a smallish town in central Connecticut, where we work in adjoining dioceses. During this...
Most people don’t dream of working for the institutional church; it’s not high on the list for childhood career days or suggestions of what to be when one...
