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The hardest thing you’ll do as a Catholic? Live like one. • If anyone says being Catholic is easy, they’re either lying, or not living like one. • This faith is hard. Forgive those who trespass against us? The ultimate “easier said than done.” Turn the other cheek? How about tongue-in-cheek instead. Dying to self? Dying to help myself most days. Trust in God? Not a simple trust-fall exercise. Fear not? Have you seen the world lately? • Being Catholic is challenging. It is way more than the sum of Masses, modest outfits and scripture inspired posts that often fill our feeds. It’s about sacrifice, selfless love, and handing over control. This faith is hard. But it is so worth it. Because the greatest thing you’ll do as a Catholic? Live like one.

It was the year 352, and Our Lady appeared to a wealthy childless Roman couple telling them to build a church. The sign she would send would be snow (in Rome, where it rarely snows). She kept her promise, and on the morning of August 5, Esquiline Hill was covered in white. A summer snowfall that garnered the attention of the entire city, and inspired the construction of the magnificent Basilica of St. Mary Major, which still stands today. I’ve heard of Christmas in July, but I think this is even better. Happy Feast of Our Lady of the Snow! ❄️ . . . #catholic #catholicmom #catholicfamily #thecatholicwoman #projectblessed #bissisterhood #catholicconnect

I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out what to write but words are escaping me. I have spent the last three weeks in some of the most beautiful villages in Flores Island, Indonesia with @focusmissions. There is still much to process and much I want to share but here is something I want to share today. During my time in Indonesia prayer was dry and more often than not I had no desire to pray. It was sometimes frustrating but nevertheless the Lord desired to speak through it. And he did. Near the beginning of the trip while meditating on the Annunciation something kept popping out to me in prayer. “The Lord is with you.” These are the words the angel spoke to Mary. How freaking exciting must it have been for a young and lowly woman in the middle of a little town to have an angel come tell her that her Lord and God was with her!!! As I sat there and pondered on what Mary must have felt I began to hear the words spoken to me: Mariana, the Lord is with you. He is with you here in the middle of Indonesia as you sit barefoot in an empty chapel. He was there with me, a seemingly randomly young woman in a little town. And so these words stuck with me the whole trip and became my anthem. I am clinging to these words now more than ever as I sit alone in a New York City apartment. The transition has hit my heart, spirit, and mind in ways I didn’t expect. My heart desires to be in our little community again in the middle of a little island with 12 perfect strangers and some of the craziest and holiest Brothers I’ve ever met but I know today I am meant to be here exactly where I am and He is with me. The Lord is with you wherever you are in this stage of life. Ending a chapter, beginning a new one, or some crazy in between. Dearest brother or sister, the Lord is with you. #bigapplecatholic #blessedisshe #projectblessed #bissisterhood

It’s been two years since I started with @blessedisshe__ and I’m more myself than I’ve ever been. I’m stronger, braver and more confident than I ever imagined I could be. I’m also smaller, weaker and more dependent on the Father than ever before. It’s been a massive adventure with a huge learning curve, and I couldn’t be more grateful. Grateful to the Lord for His invitation, and grateful to @jennaguizar for seeing in me what I couldn’t even see myself. #bissisterhood #bisretreat

Every time I reflect on the life of Josephine Bakhita I am in awe of her. She was tormented for years by those who thought they owned her. But by choosing to live a life in Christ, she proclaimed what truly owned her: love, mercy, faith, hope, forgiveness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You might be tormented by something in your past. Know that those circumstances do not define you, they do not own you. You can choose today to let them go and to live the life you've always dreamed, a life of holiness and freedom. You are a beloved child of God for all eternity! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Saint Josephine Bakhita, pray for us!!

“Humility does not equal brokenness, Maclaine.” Important words from my counselor. Sometimes we wrap ourselves in self-proclaimed humility in order to continue the neglect and plug our ears when Jesus tells us to love ourselves. We must strive for confidence. This means forgiving yourself after God has forgiven you in the confessional. Living as a victor, not a victim. God provides freedom, not chains. Join me in removing the chains that we’ve put on ourselves. Jesus’ mercy and love is the key. #acatholicconvo

I receive many messages from girls who have friends who are letting themselves be used, friends who are choosing to settle, friends who have forgotten their value. They don’t know what to say to friends who are letting themselves be pressured or manipulated or who have forgotten their dating standards. We as women have an incredible obligation to one another that is hard, but necessary, to uphold and live out. We are responsible - if we are going to be real, true, good friends - for gathering the courage to look our friends in the eyes to say…you deserve better than what you are settling for. Not in judgment, not in condemnation, but in LOVE. It is what any shred of an authentic friendship requires - it is what sisterhood demands of us. Too many of us don’t do it - we fear our friends will think we are judging, or shaming - but if ONE person gathers the courage to tell a friend she deserves better, that could just be the one thing she needed to hear to remember who she is, to change her ways, and to move in a new direction toward peace and joy. We must remind our sisters of their worth, of their value, of their dignity. It is difficult, and sometimes painful, but it is our grand responsibility to one another in true friendship and true sisterhood to speak truth. To lift up. To really, truly love.

While on mission we heard a really beautiful reflection on the wedding at Cana at a giant statue of Our Lady. The wedding at Cana has played a major role in my life this year so this reflection sat deeper than usual. Everyday Our Lady is doing for us what she did at Cana. She notices our need like she noticed the need of the bride and groom. She takes those needs on behalf of us to her Son. She then tells us like she told the servants, and please don’t miss this like I have been for the last few months, she says “do what he tells you.” Today on the feast day of Transfiguration the Father speaks and says “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” He makes the same plea that our Mother asks of us. I have a habit of running around the rooms in my heart trying to talk Jesus’ ear off and I don’t give room for my heart to listen. Christ speaks in the silence of our hearts and often speaks by saying nothing at all. Our Lord is not suggesting we listen to his son, he is commanding it. Remembering this, I can’t help but ask myself the question: how much listening am I actually doing in these days? #bigapplecatholic #blessedisshe #projectblessed #bissisterhood

Speaking to 4,500 people in 2019 -> The end of a long night waiting tables in 2012. My time as a waitress was a very important season of my life. I keep my name tag in my desk in clear sight so I see it all the time. I didn’t think it was important at the time - it was HARD. There was nothing glamorous about it. I was frustrated as my job applications for “career” jobs in journalism were consistently ignored and rejected, but I didn’t realize that God had me right where He wanted as I put on my black uniform every day. For years I waited tables and cleaned bathrooms and stayed in the restaurant cleaning past midnight on some nights and I grew in humility. I grew in perseverance. I grew in patience. I was being sculpted and shaped for the next season - but my mistake was to believe that the next season would be “better.” The next season wasn’t better, it was just different (and didn’t involve free BBQ chicken pizza). Every season has purpose. Every season has meaning. What I would go back and tell myself is this…”Emily, stop rejecting this season in hopes that the next one will be better and stop believing that God can’t use you right now. ‘Now’ is the best season. God uses it all. His hand is always moving and His plans for your life, even when you don’t like them, are good. So, you get to choose to reject this season or embrace it. Say it out loud…’God the Father, I know I am clay in your hands. Help me to be at peace exactly where you have me. Help me to dive into this season fully and completely.’” Maybe you’re working your dream job or maybe you’re working at a theme park (I did that, too)...your day today has purpose and meaning. We must choose to live like that is true. :@lifeteen