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Abundance, Not Scarcity

Today's Readings When reading today’s Gospel, I was sincerely challenged on a response to the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. All...

Be Forgiven and Forgive

Today's Readings One of the phrases I have unabashedly preached as a parent is: There’s nothing we can’t work through, as long as you’re...

Be a Lifelong Learner

Today's Readings One of the greatest gifts of being a lover of books and good words, is the constant invitation to learn and grow. Books...

An Ordinary Sunday

Today's Readings So here we are at the seemingly benign Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many major holidays of the church have...

Throw Me a Bone

Today's Readings I am learning to dig deeply into the places that hurt The Canaanite woman knows she is not of Jesus’ people and yet she...

Taking a Leap to See Jesus

Today's Readings Today’s gospel sets the scene of the disciples at sea braving a harsh night. Imagine huge waves crashing into your boat...

Taking Time on the Mountaintop

Today's Readings Today’s gospel, the Transfiguration, transports me back in time to the hollers and hills of West Virginia…to Nazareth...

Rightly Ordered

Today's Readings I’ve been having very vivid dreams lately. Almost every night, I’ve been dreaming about people from throughout my life...

Imperfect Attempts

Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...

In Collaboration with Creation

Today's Readings The seed that falls in the fertile field, Under joy and showers, good fruit it will yield. The Word goes forth from the...

The Gentle Mastery of Christ

Today's Readings Gentleness. Isn’t it true that we all long to be treated gently? Isn’t gentleness what we’re searching for when we rush...

When Singing of God’s Kindness is Hard

Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...

Like a Shepherd

Today's Readings Jesus is the Good Shepherd - this idea for Christ is warm, welcoming, and unwavering. Jesus as the Good Shepherd...

The “both/and” of the Eucharist

Today's Readings I have been a part of a variety of different Catholic communities in my lifetime, and each of them has placed a slightly...

In the Beginning was the Conversation

Today's Readings As a high school theology teacher, I often find myself in the midst of unexpected conversations. I will have my plans...

The Unpredictability of God

Today's Readings When I was a little girl, I loved watching the crackle and color of a fire. Our family could have been around a campfire...

The Stuff of Life

Today's Readings As a non-Catholic Christian who frequently attends Mass, I am often fascinated by the chosen pairing of the Scriptures....

Love Spilled Out

Today's Readings Today, on the 6th Sunday of Easter, is one of my favorite Gospel readings by John. It is all about loving God, loving...

The Cornerstones

Today's Readings Today is the fifth Sunday of Easter and the readings offer us a glimpse into the early days of the Church. The people...

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