Oh, how I loathe that banal platitude, "everything happens for a reason". It is one of those things that you say when you don't know what...

Looking back with appreciation and regret at the end of the milk saga. Well folks, our little baby girl is now a toddler. Sure, she has...

With my daughter's first birthday fast approaching, I have been thinking a lot about her dramatic entry into the world. Since I have...

On New Year's Day of 1863, St. Zélie wrote to her brother Isidore about how glad she was for her vocation of marriage, despite her desire...

The world is in such need of children. Who that follows the news to any extent can deny it? The adult world of political chaos, church...

Now that my daughter is a little older and is beginning to understand the word 'no', I have finally resumed wearing a little cross around...

Spontaneously the melody of the litany of saints entered my head and I repeated it again and again- “all you holy men and women pray for...

Hello, my name is Melanie Gibbs and I am in love with St. Zélie Martin. I must admit I loved her from the start. The first thing I heard...

Any mom who has experienced feeding or supply issues or has had a baby fail to thrive can imagine the agony and terror of Zélie as she...