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The Fall
As a high school theology teacher and new mother, I often find myself revisiting biblical stories that I have heard and read hundreds of...
Katie Davis-Crowder
Jun 8, 20243 min read
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Wrestling with Blood
My two-year-old son doesn’t understand much about our faith yet, but he knows that the shape of a cross is associated with Jesus. One...
Kelly Sankowski
Jun 1, 20243 min read
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Experiencing the Trinity in Community
Trinity Sunday can at once feel both mundane and inaccessible. We call upon the name of the Trinity in our prayer so often that the...
Maura Rocks
May 26, 20242 min read
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Pentecost Is Terrifying
Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...
Jennifer Delvaux
May 18, 20243 min read
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Adjusting Expectations
As someone 2,000+ years removed from Christ’s death and resurrection, I can find it easy to chuckle at the apostles’ lack of...
Kelly Sankowski
May 11, 20242 min read
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You are My Friend, You’re Special to Me
F-R-I-E-N-D. We all know what that spells. Friends are the best gift we can have. Friendship can get us through any sorrow, hardship,...
Jocelyn E. Collen
May 4, 20243 min read
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Roots
Growing up I found this passage of the gospel concerning the vines and the branches to be fairly straightforward. Then I began...
Allison Bobzien
Apr 27, 20242 min read
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Commitment to Collective Liberation
In Heather McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us, she tells the story of the drained public pool. In the 1920s and 1930s, there were massive...
Josie Diebold
Apr 13, 20242 min read
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Some Mercy Now
“MERCY is NOT table fry sharing!” Almost twenty years after leaving our Mercy high school, my best friend and I still exchange this...
Katie Davis-Crowder
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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Cobblestones, Grace, and Comfortable Shoes
The strangest Palm Sunday experience I ever had was when I somehow ended up as a lector at the Mass with Pope Benedict several years ago....
Jennifer Delvaux
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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Trouble and Glory
Today’s Gospel is particularly difficult to read and reflect on; Jesus predicts his own death, says that those who wish to serve him must...
Sara Ann Conneely
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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The Light of God
Even though today is the fourth Sunday of Lent, to most of the world it is just another day. Another Sunday to get laundry done, make...
Jessica Grima Jewett
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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Listening for God's Voice
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is a personal favorite: “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts”. My preference for this Psalm...
Mary Beth Keenan
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
The Old Testament reading this week is the well-known story of “the binding of Isaac.” Abraham has been told by God to bring his only...
Erika Tate
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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The Challenge of the Spirit
Reading Mark’s Gospel often feels like running a sprint, because it is so action-packed and fast paced. Today's Gospel reading comes...
Kelly Sankowski
Feb 17, 20243 min read
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Defying Social Scripts
A friend and I have been trying to get together for over a month, but every week one of our toddlers is sick. And in our post-COVID world...
Kelly Sankowski
Feb 10, 20243 min read
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God Walks With the Brokenhearted
This time of year is riddled with dates that remind me of my brokenheartedness. Between the beginning of February and the beginning of...
Mary Beth Keenan
Feb 3, 20242 min read
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The Gift of Choices
The miracles of Jesus served many purposes; of course, they were service to those who most needed healing, but they also supported Jesus’...
Sara Spittler
Jan 27, 20243 min read
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Change
A few years ago, I chose to leave my graduate program where I was studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. At the time this decision...
Allison Bobzien
Jan 20, 20242 min read
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Were You Listening?
The holidays are past, and we are blessed with a powerful trio of readings on yet another extraordinary, ordinary Sunday! Here I am Lord,...
Sue Delvaux
Jan 13, 20241 min read
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