Fortified by her faith and trust in God’s will for her life, Catherine chose to serve and to love.
Andrea di Bonaiuto, “Triumph of the Church (Detail),” featuring St. Catherine of Sweden, second from left, with Joan I of Naples and St. Brigid of Sweden (photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
A year ago today my husband and I received the news that our little one had passed away in utero. A week prior we’d learned that the baby was not growing on track, but still we had prayed and hoped for a miracle. The miracle was not to be and we went home to grieve our unborn child and care for our two toddlers. That afternoon, as I lay curled on the couch praying for the grace to accept God’s will while my husband tended to our sons, I reached for my phone to look up that day’s saint. I had been begging the intercession of Our Lady and St. Joseph, the patron of the unborn, all week, and I would turn to them many more times in the days to come, but in that moment, I just wanted to be able to ask one more friend in heaven to look out for my little one.
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