Renee Fuentes, Author at The SundayMonday

A New Home for Christmas

by Renee Fuentes | January 4, 2022 | Bold in Life | 0 Comments

Many of us have been there. Finding an apartment, signing a lease, packing boxes, renting a U-Haul, moving furniture, and unpacking the same boxes in a new place. Then, 11 months later we get ready to do it all over again! In the five years leading up to our...

To Women Who Work

by Renee Fuentes | November 3, 2021 | Bold in Work | 0 Comments

This piece is based on a talk given by the author during a young adult women’s retreat for the Diocese of Arlington on October 16, 2021. In his 1995 Letter to Women Pope Saint John Paul II says, “Thank you women who work! You are present and active in every...

Encounter Jesus in The Chosen

by Renee Fuentes | September 21, 2021 | Bold in Faith, Bold in Life | 0 Comments

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo Have you seen it yet? Seasons 1 and 2 of The Chosen, co-written and directed by Evangelical Christian...

Confessions of a Chasti-holic

by Renee Fuentes | August 22, 2021 | Bold in Faith, Bold in Life | 0 Comments

Here’s something I’ve never told anyone before: I missed the first and only chastity talk at my small Catholic school in fifth grade. I didn’t hear one until college. By then, I had forgotten the belief of saving sex for marriage that my upbringing had taught...

Relationship Precedes Mission

by Renee Fuentes | July 14, 2021 | Bold in Faith, Bold in Life | 0 Comments

The following are reflections from a participant of the 2021 GIVEN Catholic Young Women’s Leadership Forum that took place from June 9-13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. “It is thus my hope, dear sisters, that you will reflect carefully on what it means to speak of...

Nothing I Hold Onto

by Renee Fuentes | June 7, 2021 | Bold in Faith | 0 Comments

I Lean Not On My Own Understanding. My life is in the hands of the maker of Heaven. There was, and is, so much about our faith that I struggle to understand. Concepts like our Trinitarian God, saving sex and sexual acts for marriage, and Christ’s redemptive...

An Imminent Conversion

by Renee Fuentes | February 16, 2021 | Bold in Life, Transitions | 0 Comments

It was around 11:00 am and I was in the bathroom at work crying. It’s never a place you want your emotions to spill over, but these were happy tears. I had been scrolling through a photo library to find a picture of a friend to wish him happy birthday and saw a video...

An Extrovert’s Guide to Finding Community

by Renee Fuentes | November 28, 2020 | Bold in Life, Transitions | 0 Comments

In the aftermath of a cannonball shattering his leg in battle, St. Ignatius of Loyola was lying in bed and wondering if he would ever walk again. Was his lifelong dream to lead an army into battle gone forever? While lying in bed, St. Ignatius was brought two...

November 4

by Renee Fuentes | October 26, 2020 | Bold in Life | 0 Comments

I’m not one to make election predictions, but I do predict that on November 4, 2020, we will not know who will be the next president of the United States. I’m worried that our country is not prepared for this kind of non-result in a general election, especially this...

A Weekly Pilgrimage

by Renee Fuentes | September 22, 2020 | Bold in Faith, Bold in Life | 0 Comments

Have you ever had a profound conversation in the most mundane place? God can work anywhere. I was at the hair salon and I pulled out a rosary to pray as my hair dye set in. Jesus had other plans because as soon as the hairdresser saw it, he immediately asked me...