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For Emmitt
I facilitate Urban Plunge Immersion Retreats. During these retreats students learn about, serve, and hopefully encounter in small...

Laura G. Hancock
3 days ago3 min read


Trusting Our Community
Jesus’ instructions to his disciples in today’s gospel strikes right at my anxiety. He tells them to go forth, “carry no money bag, no...
Josie Diebold
Jul 62 min read


Room for Us All
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – two men to whom God entrusted large parts of the early Church, and...
Kelly Sankowski
Jun 292 min read


A Meal of Remembrance
Growing up in my family, we had a special traditions around yearly birthday celebrations. The birthday person got to pick what they...

Patty Breen
Jun 222 min read


Veni Sancte Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit! Today we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost. In the readings today, we hear about the apostles receiving the Holy...

Caroline Head
Jun 71 min read


Now What?
I keep thinking of the moment when Jesus tells the disciples that they don’t need to know the times or the seasons for when God does...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Jun 12 min read


What might he say?
Without in the least trivializing the splendid readings for this last Sunday of the Easter season, let me share that decades ago, I began...

Sue Delvaux
May 243 min read


Stories of Loving One Another
What would you do for your friends and the people you love? My guess would be that you would do anything for the people you love....

Jocelyn E. Collen
May 173 min read


Apostolic Conversion
I love this time after Lent, when we get the readings of the apostles, and we hear the ways that the mission of Jesus was being spread...

Alexis Abello
May 101 min read


Unfathomable: Follow Me
There have been many happenings in my personal life over the past eight months that, before they occurred, I would have said were...

Laura G. Hancock
May 32 min read


Unlocking the Heart
In the April 2025 Magnificat mass companion, the introduction for Divine Mercy Sunday says that Jesus showed his wounded hands and side,...

Jenny Snarski
Apr 262 min read


That Sunday Through Her Eyes
It is the darkness before the first rays of the morning sunrise peeking over the hills. The whole world is still - and yet, my whole...

Patty Breen
Apr 202 min read


Called To Be Leaders
Today’s Mass opens with a familiar scene—Jesus entering Jerusalem, seated on a colt, as his followers “began to praise God aloud with...
Josie Diebold
Apr 122 min read


Resisting Paralysis
My toddler likes to help me do the dishes, but is afraid of the disposal. One day recently, I was emptying out some old food and delaying...
Kelly Sankowski
Apr 53 min read


Of Darkness and Light
“Brothers and sisters: You were once darkness, but now you are the light of the world.” Who might you guess is the Saint of Darkness?...

Barbara Silvestri
Mar 292 min read


Take off your shoes, you holy and wondrous human
In today’s first reading from Exodus, Moses has spotted the burning bush on Mount Sinai. God calls to him by name. Moses answers “Here I...

Sarah Signorino
Mar 222 min read


Transformed into Christ
Today we celebrate the second Sunday of Lent. As Catholics, tradition has taught us that the 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Mar 152 min read


Chopped Spirituality
Hunger is a natural part of the human experience. There are days I crave dark chocolate, the rush of cheap store-bought candy sugar, a...

Renée Roden
Mar 92 min read


The Wisdom of Ordinary Time
I am preparing this on a bitter cold day literally and figuratively in Illinois on Monday, January 20, 2025. It was -1° when I got going...

Sue Delvaux
Mar 12 min read


Love in a Time of Hate
Whew! This week’s Gospel hits hard as we are dealing with everything that is going on in the world. There are many Christians who...

Jennifer Delvaux
Feb 232 min read
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