All Posts by From the Heart

When I go on assignments for The Visitor, I take a lot of photos. Sometimes it’s hard to choose which ones are published, and most of the time, no one gets to see all the others. So this blog is a great opportunity to share some of those behind-the-scenes photos!   I recently visited Holy […]

Home. There’s something so great about hometowns—so many memories, milestones, and family ties forged there. I’m so blessed to have been able to return to my hometown after college; going back to where your roots are helps you to remember who you are and see how much you’ve changed and grown in your time away. […]

The liturgical season of All Saint’s and All Soul’s has arrived. I really have come to appreciate this season and find it perfect for my ability to embrace all that it can teach me about living into our baptism and death. At the moment of our baptism, we are baptized into new life in Christ […]

This past weekend we had the chance to go to an awesome All Saints’ Day party hosted by one of our good friends. It was targeted for young kids, but since we’re kids at heart, of course we took advantage of the opportunity to dress up as well!  Who wouldn’t want to be a saint […]

Psalm 71 contains this phrase: “Now that I am old and grey-headed, do not forsake me, O God.” The psalm is the voice of suffering and oppression. The voice of old age and diminished capacity. The voice of a lifetime of experiences. The voice of acknowledging God’s acts of grace throughout life. It is the […]

Vivimos en una sociedad donde las bodas de plata o de oro se están convirtiendo en cosa del pasado y van siendo parte de la historia, debido a la falta de compromiso en los nuevos matrimonios. Algunas estadísticas muestran que más del 50% de los nuevos matrimonios terminan en divorcio o separación. Esto viene a […]

Having grown up in the Catholic Church, I learned at a young age that it is such a treasure trove of tradition, full of wonderful reasons and seasons to celebrate. With so many saints and martyrs to honor and feasts on nearly every calendar day, there’s hardly a day we couldn’t be feasting on fine […]

I spent years laughing at the episode. The episode of “Friends” in which Chandler’s co-worker calls him “Toby” and has for years, because once he started it was too awkward to correct the error, so Chandler just kept allowing it…until it got complicated. I spent years laughing at it, that is until it actually happened to […]

We are doing something a little different today! Our latest post comes from guest blogger Molly Minnerath, parishioner of St. Mary Church in Alexandria. Molly is a spending a year as a missioner in Bolivia through Maryknoll. She has her own blog and has agreed to let us share it with you. Stay tuned for […]

Christ has no body now on earth but yours; no hands but yours; no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ must look out on the world. Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which He is to […]