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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Evangelization,  feast days

    Calling on heaven – the feast of St. Zelie Martin

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Because our littlest rooster woke at the ripe hour of 5:20 this morning (that’s what you get for uttering the phrase “sleeping through the night” on the internet) I’ve already been to the gym, showered, done dishes…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  Sex,  Theology of the Body

    Living Humanae Vitae: stories of faithfulness to the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage

    By Jenny Uebbing

    How many times can she write about NFP? I can write about it as many times as it takes in order for me to internalize the seemingly simple concepts undergirding this most perennially misunderstood of Catholic teachings:…

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  • Evangelization,  Family Life,  large family,  Marriage,  motherhood,  Parenting

    Thriving, surviving, and tithing (+ a little miracle)

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Since mid-October we’ve been battling a mild onslaught of illnesses of the childhood variety, along with your typical run-of-the-mill life with lots ‘o kids shenanigans. Evie kicked off sick season with a heart-stopping middle of the night…

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  • benedict option,  Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Evangelization,  feast days

    Saints alive: In the world, but not of the world

    By Jenny Uebbing

    It’s the Feast of All Saints, which means everyone has a raging sugar hangover and we’re on our second round of costumes in 24 hours – which, I admit, sounds miserable but which I manage by encouraging,…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  feast days,  liturgical living,  saint days

    Liturgical living for the lazy mom

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Hey, do you have a kid or several and are trying to raise them Catholic and sort of had no idea, when you were growing up, that there were liturgical seasons, let alone an entire liturgical calendar…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  deliverance,  Evangelization,  prayer,  spiritual warfare

    I must confess: building a habit of the Sacrament of Reconciliation

    By Jenny Uebbing

    When I was a Catholic kid growing up, like most Catholic kids I’ve ever known, I hated going to confession. I hated the sinking feeling in my stomach as I stood in line, palms sweating and heart…

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  • Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  motherhood,  pregnancy,  Pro Life

    An open letter to the Duchess of Cambridge on the announcement of her third pregnancy

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Dear Kate, (Can I call you that? I feel like I know you since I follow your fashion account on Twitter. Or, rather, the person who stalks the fashion rags and reposts effortlessly elegant shots of you…

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  • benedict option,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  motherhood,  Parenting,  school

    Getting schooled at home (whether or not you’re homeschooling)

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Like other neurotic and vaguely millennial (by the skin of my teeth, I tell you. 1982.) mothers of modern times, I stress somewhat obsessively over the choices we’ve made slash continue to make for our children. Gluten?…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Evangelization,  feast days

    Ignatian spirituality for moms

    By Jenny Uebbing

    My spiritual director (who is probably off somewhere directing an 8 day Ignatian retreat right now) will probably cringe at this attempt to condense the richness of Ignatian spirituality to a blog post, but then again, he…

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  • About Me,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality

    Love me enough not to leave me there

    By Jenny Uebbing

    My college years were wild. They could have been worse, but they could also have been a whole lot tamer, which is always thrown into stark relief when I swap stories with my FUS pedigreed husband and…

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