Jessica Grima
Faith that Can Move Mountains
Today's Readings If I just had more faith…. I think most of us have struggled with that at some point in our life. If I just had more...
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Jennifer Delvaux
The Laces of Grace
Today’s Readings Perhaps one of the greatest identifiers of a human being is our free will. We have the ability to choose and it is what...
Caroline Head
Honesty for the Poor
Today's Readings Throughout high school and college, my friends and I often repeated movie quotes to each other. As I read through...
Sue Delvaux
In Remembrance, Overwhelming Grace
Today's Readings I was interested in writing this piece because of this Sunday’s date, September 11, 2022. Twenty-one years after the...
Jennifer Delvaux
Jesus Didn't
Today’s Readings Hate our fathers and mothers, spouses and children, even our own lives. And take up our crosses. These lines are often...
Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Spiritual Poverty Is Not Humiliation, and Other Things I’ve Learned from Living Paycheck to Paycheck
This week, a Very Big Thing happened in the Cheshire household. My husband and I went on a date. As we walked into our local pizza place,...
Jennifer Delvaux
Cutting Threads in a World of Gray
Today’s Readings The readings today are a mixed bag. At some points the words offer comfort and hope. At others the warn of wailing and...
Katie Davis-Crowder
Too Much
Today's Readings Like most little kids, when I was small, I often parrotted back words and phrases that the adults in my world used...
Caroline Head
Be Ready
Today's Readings We may be in the dog days of summer, but my mind is already on Advent when pursuing today’s readings. When I taught...
Kathleen O'Brien
Time to Stop
Today's Readings This striking scripture passage is often very fitting for those who live in a rich country like the United States. By...
Jessica Grima
Never Cease Praying
Today's Readings On this 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, I love Luke’s Gospel. Jesus is not only teaching His disciples but all of us how...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
I am not Martha or Mary
I have never been a big fan of the Martha and Mary story. There is certainly a reactionary bit on my part. There are enough places and...
Jennifer Delvaux
Our Choice
Today's Readings “It is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.”...
Caroline Head
Planning the Harvest
Today's Readings This might be a weekend you are turning on an out of office message and enjoying some well-deserved time to relax. Many...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
The Gift of True Freedom
Today's Readings The second reading this week from Galatians centers around the concept of freedom, an idea at the core of American...
Sue Delvaux
Not Counted
Today's Readings On this occasion of Father’s Day, we are blessed to be hearing what I feel is one of the truly great miracles of...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
We Can Hold Both
Today's Readings As a woman in my mid-thirties, I am surrounded by friendships with women who are at all different places when it comes...
Katie Davis-Crowder
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit
Today's Readings Today we celebrate Pentecost, when the breath of the Spirit flowed through Jesus’ friends and empowered them to bring...
Jessica Grima
A Letter to a Hurting World
Today's Readings As I sit here writing this devotion for the 7th Sunday of Easter, my heart is again troubled as our world suffers at the...
Where Is Our Hope?
Today's Readings My head and heart are heavy as I sit down to write this reflection. In the past week, there has been another mass...