Fertility tracking apps have become incredibly popular, but most have secular goals, and many create a risk of exposing your information. Enter PeakDay, created by the Fertility Science Institute of the Couple to Couple League. The Catholic fertility and period-tracking app is designed as a safe, values-driven alternative to apps that often promote birth control, abortion, and other controversial agendas.

In the second reading for today’s Mass, St. Paul says, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth” (Colossians 3:1-2).

This Lent, we walked with Jesus to Calvary. Now, at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday, we ask: "How well did you bear your crosses and trials this Lent?"

Good Friday highlights a tragic event in which Jesus suffered a cruel and unjust death as He sacrificed Himself for the sins of humanity. And yet, because we know the purpose behind this great sacrifice and the joy to come just three days later, we can truly see it as a “good” day.

Life in Christ cannot exist without Him. How we crave Him!  How desperately we need Him! Our souls truly ache to be united with Him.

Joseph’s chastity, and his purity of heart, which includes but goes beyond just physical purity, enabled him to embrace God’s will, no matter the apparent cost to himself or the strenuousness of the undertaking. The pure, unadulterated gaze of Joseph’s heart upon God made it extremely sensitive and supple to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit, as revealed to him by God’s messenger angels.