How Traditions Shift as a Family Grows
As her family grows, Sarah Damm shares her experience of how traditions have changed and shifted along the way.
6 Ways to Prepare a Quiet Advent Now
Sarah Damm offers 6 ways to prepare now for a quiet Advent so we can truly be ready for Christ’s coming this Christmas.
Six Ideas for Living Liturgically This Easter
This Easter, Sarah Damm offers six ideas for keeping the entire season (all 50 days) festive and celebratory.
Love: Scriptures to Pray this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, Sarah Damm shares Scripture verses that highlight the love that transforms hearts, heals wounds, and changes worlds.
Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring
As winter comes to a close, and the dawn of a new season is upon us, Sarah Damm reflects back on the last three months and shares what she has learned.
Liturgical Living Between Christmas and Lent
After Christmas, we enter a short season of Ordinary Time, before Lent begins. Here are a few ideas for living liturgically during winter’s Ordinary Time.
Forming Holiday Traditions Rooted in Faith
Holiday traditions are important to all of us, but many of us desire traditions rooted in faith. Sarah Damm shares some ideas.
Savoring Summer: 10 Things I Love About the Season
Last week, one of my kids told me, “Summer is almost over.” Say what? When I shared this with Greg, he didn’t sound surprised. Apparently, one of his coworkers said something similar to him. Something along the lines of it being the end of July. On July 10. I returned to my child, and we counted the remaining days of summer. We discovered that we have a few more than 40 days left of summer break. I thought that would…
Five Mother’s Day Gifts That Keep on Giving
The vocation of motherhood is a beautiful one. In Mulieris Dignitatem, St. John Paul II writes, “Each and every time that motherhood is repeated in human history, it is always related to the Covenant which God established with the human race through the motherhood of the Mother of God.” Wow! To think that every pregnancy points to the Incarnation is nothing less than amazing! As beautiful as motherhood is, it also can be difficult and even painful. [Motherhood] is constituted more…
Waiting and Watching With Mary This Advent
This article was originally published on the WINE: Women In the New Evangelization blog, as a reflection on the readings for the first Sunday of Advent. Since that was just a few days ago, I thought I would share it here, too, as part of the #WorthRevisit series. Seven years ago, I had the beautiful privilege of being pregnant during the Advent season. I was anticipating a Christmas baby, so I couldn’t help but think a lot about the Blessed…