Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes about how she never thought she would want to go to confession with a priest she also considered a friend. She writes: “I remember one of my seminarian [friends] making ...
Do you struggle with praying with Scripture? In her latest column, Ava Lalor shares a book that has guided her through the Advent and Christmas seasons and a podcast that she is using: “The Bible ...
Ava Lalor shares what door-to-door ministry taught her about availability and how she is making it her word of the year for 2021. She writes about availability, saying: “This doesn’t have to be complicated. It ...
“Always winter, but never Christmas.” In her latest column, assistant editor Ava Lalor reflects on the popular phrase from the classic children’s novel, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” As she writes in her ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor reflects on her experience as a young adult Catholic amid the second wave of the Church’s reckoning with clergy sexual abuse. She writes: “As a young adult who had then been ...
This month, assistant editor Ava Lalor reread a popular classic by C.S. Lewis, “The Great Divorce.” For those who are unfamiliar with the story, Lewis provides a visual representation of what heaven, hell and purgatory ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor shares a prayer that everyone should pray before the end of 2020: the surrender novena. She writes: “While novenas should not be about ‘fixing’ a situation, they should guide our hearts ...
Ava Lalor, assistant editor and young, single Catholic, writes: This is a letter to all parents and grandparents who wish the best for their beloved young ones. This is also a letter reaching out to ...
When you look at your prayer life, how often do you pray for others and for God’s will? In her latest Openers column, assistant editor Ava Lalor shares how God has been guiding her to ...
As we approach the feast of the archangels on September 29, assistant editor Ava Lalor writes that we should learn to call on their intercession in our everyday lives. While we may not have mystical ...
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