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Voice of the Lord
Today begins a series of special posts that will run through the Easter season. Normally you won't see them on Sunday, but it was fitting...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Apr 4, 20212 min read
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Finding God on the Cobblestones
Today’s Readings Palm Sunday is particularly dear to my heart. Years ago, I participated in the Tenth Forum for Youth sponsored by the...

Jennifer Delvaux
Mar 28, 20213 min read
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Learning Not to Look for Answers
Today's Readings Today’s Gospel reading contains a familiar and one of the most quoted verses, “For God so loved the world that he gave...

Pearl Gonzales
Mar 14, 20212 min read
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What’s in the water you’re drinking?
In the gospel reading I’m reminded Jesus is the brazen rabble-rouser that I always forget about. “At that moment his disciples returned,...

Rose Miola
Mar 7, 20213 min read
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The Company We Keep
Today’s Readings We tend to focus on the highlight – what happened at the top of the mountain. We thank God for the deliverance of Isaac...

Jennifer Delvaux
Feb 28, 20213 min read
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Searching for Hope
Today's Readings A sign. As continue living through this pandemic. With a winter that is daily adding pain and suffering. We enter in to...

Jennifer Delvaux
Feb 21, 20212 min read
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Unsolicited Love
Today's Readings February 14th - Valentine’s Day holds many expectations for people. Some may be thinking along the lines of roses and...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Feb 14, 20212 min read
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Out of the Drudgery
Today’s Readings Today’s readings seem rough at first. They speak of drudgery, work, stewardship, early mornings, and vast crowds. The...

Jennifer Delvaux
Feb 7, 20212 min read
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Quiet! Come Out!
Today's Readings Not sleeping well is a habit in my family. Most of us have the gift of trying to fall asleep and instead doing inventory...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Jan 31, 20212 min read
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Just Before
Today’s Readings “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” We are quick to point out where others need to repent, where people fall short,...

Jennifer Delvaux
Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Making Space
Today's Readings We have hit the post-Christmas lull. For many, it means dry January and new year resolutions and goals. Ordinary time...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Jan 17, 20212 min read
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Baptism of the Lord
Today’s Readings In the readings today we find a tripartite stratum that gives us a deeper sense of the meaning of our baptismal call. To...

Kathleen O'Brien
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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An Epiphany Defying Expectations
Today’s Readings The Magi set out. They knew what they were about. They were wise, wealthy, prepared with gifts and likely a large...

Jennifer Delvaux
Jan 3, 20213 min read
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Holy Family
I was late to my son’s baptism. Not ‘arrive-during-the-Gloria’ late but ‘arrive-during-the-homily-and-almost-miss-the-actual-baptismal-ri...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Dec 27, 20202 min read
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Brokenness, Imagination & Peace
Today's Readings Today marks the beginning of the fourth week of Advent, just a few days more ‘til Christmas! On the Advent wreath, we...

Rachel Conrad Carlson
Dec 20, 20203 min read
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Rejoicing Amongst the Darkness
Today's Readings Rejoice! Again, I say Rejoice! Today is the third Sunday of Advent, and all around the world we light the pink candle on...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Dec 13, 20203 min read
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A Prophet's Words
Today’s Readings Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem These opening words from Isaiah in...

Jennifer Delvaux
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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Waiting. Watching. In hope of restoration...
Today’s Readings This week opens Advent with the charge to wait, to prepare. From the dark and forbidding words in the first reading from...

Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 29, 20202 min read
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King and Companion
Today’s Readings Happy Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe! These are always some of my favorite readings. I could write and...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Nov 22, 20203 min read
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To those who have been given much
Today’s Readings Today is World Day of the Poor. In 2016, Pope Francis declared that the thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary time as the Day...

Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 15, 20202 min read
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