The past two weeks have been full of changes, and yet through it all, the my school community remains positive, hopeful, trusting - not in a naive way, but with eyes of faith. Questions that teens often ask include, "where is God in the midst of suffering?" and "why does God allow bad things to [...]
A tweet recently went viral that said, “Honestly hadn’t planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.” It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, the timing of COVID-19, right in the middle of Lent, in which millions of people suddenly find themselves giving things up — whether they wanted to or not. [...]
Anxiety can be a heavy subject. But somehow, GIFs make everything feel a little more light. So here’s a serious article about anxiety and some tips on how to manage it, with a lot of GIFs to make it a little happier. The phrase ‘Too Blessed to Be Stressed” honestly makes me want to punch [...]
If someone were to ask me, “who is the Gospel for,” I’d tell you the Gospel is for the skeptic, the orphan, the lonely; I’d tell you the Gospel is for the people who are stumbling, running, or limping, down the road to Heaven; it’s for the young, the old, it’s for sinful people who [...]
“Do you have any questions I can answer for you before your Confirmation?” This is the standard question I ask my sophomores in high school to conclude their Confirmation interview. Typically, I get a quick “Nope, I don’t think so,” or “What time is rehearsal again?” But the young man sitting before me looked up [...]
Whether we realize it or not, every time we bless ourselves “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of Holy Spirit” (or “in-name-of-father-son-holy-spirit-amen” if we’re trying to eat dinner quickly), we are not only making a prayer to God, but we are recalling our baptism. There’s nothing I love more on a [...]
It was our last 'Dare Greatly' - a program Katie and I had created for young women with the hopes that they would grow in their faith, as well as in relationship with each other as sisters in Christ. Because Lord knows, we need people to walk this journey with us. We had decided to [...]
Today is Monday, a day I affectionately love to begrudge and use as an excuse to drink too much coffee. But today is not any Monday, it’s Monday of Holy Week. . In today’s Gospel, people ridicule the woman for pouring expensive oil over Jesus’ feet, rather than giving it to the poor. Jesus responds [...]
I love traditions. My family is always cautious to start something new, worried that I’ll suddenly exclaim, “this should be a new family tradition!” We have many, beautiful traditions in our family, but if we had a tradition for every time I declared a new one, we’d have hundreds…and then we’d probably have none because [...]
I recently re-read C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. If you haven’t read it, go get it on Kindle, Amazon, Audible, your library (yes, they still exist!). I love this book. It’s brilliant and I think everyone should read it. It’s written from the perspective of Uncle Screwtape, a demon, who is training his nephew, Wormwood, in [...]
Caitlin Bean 