We are Frances and Clare, two sisters and best friends, and care packages are our love language! Frances carries the cross of infertility an

The first of our 2024 virtual gatherings for the Fruitful Hollow community is a group rosary meditating on the Holy Name of Jesus on...

On 21st January 2024, The Fruitful Hollow turned 3! If you’d like to read about how this ministry came about, click here to read our first..

I invite you to tread this path with me, and to open your heart to ALL the possibilities God has in store for you. We put God in a narrow...

It was movie night. I thought I was sitting down to watch a light-hearted horror movie (Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice). Instead, I had stumbled..

Every time we come to a new year, I wonder what it will hold. In the past few years, though, I’ve noticed that my gazes into the future...

Society wants us to believe that a marriage is only fruitful when children come from it. If that were the case, what would be the purpose...

If you find yourself lamenting that so many Christmas traditions seem to revolve around children, we want you to know that that doesn’t...

On a recent morning, I was in the throes of PMS (sometimes this verges on its more severe form, PMDD). I was tired after a restless night...

Lisa and I met and started dating in March of 1985. We have been married for 35 years. We are both cradle Catholics and active in our...

When you're stuck in the muck of the messiness that infertility brings, it is hard to see the light. It may feel like your feet and heart...

I’ve always been pro-life. When I was in grade school I was even part of a “students for life” club. We prayed outside of abortion clinics..

Lectio Divina (aka “divine reading”) is a traditional Church approach to praying with scripture in a personal way. There are a number of...

We were in front of the cathedral. It was nearing midnight. The air was crisp, I could see my breath. I was in need of physical healing...

On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..

Bacon and chocolate, salt and caramel, ice cream and french fries, and a friendship between an infertile woman and a woman with two surprise

We believe that sex needs to be talked about more in the Catholic Church so that fewer couples feel alone on their journey. To open up...

From that point on, there was a shift in my prayers. I had been praying for a baby but after this encounter, I started praying for the...

“He’s God of the hills and valleys.” (Tauren Wells) While listening to the Sunday readings one day (Luke 17:5-10… faith the size of a musta

The nine days of prayer is considered to be the first novena, which took place in the time period between the Ascension and Pentecost.