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In the Year of Our Lord
Happy 2nd Sunday of Advent! I find the scriptures in today’s readings to be incredibly dynamic as they powerfully reflect our own...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Dec 7, 20243 min read
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A Shepherd's Call: St. Oscar Romero’s Last Christmas Eve Homily & the Ongoing Hope of Palestinian Witness
By Alayna Carlock and Julia Morrow I was introduced to St. Oscar Romero years ago through the homily that he delivered on Christmas Eve...
Julia Morrow
Nov 30, 20244 min read
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Sign up now! Advent reflections start soon!
As some may be recovering from turkey or football, or perhaps getting up too early (in my opinion at least!) to venture to the stores, we...
Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Lady Wisdom’s Feast of Abundance
My spouse and I chose hospitality as a virtue we wanted present in our marriage, family and community. This has looked like a lot of...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
Nov 28, 20243 min read
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St. Catherine of Alexandria: Patron of Wheel-Breaking Feminists
Type into Google “patron saint of feminists” and you will find that there is no such title. There are suggestions such as Sts. Brigid,...
Erika Tate
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Sign up for daily Advent reflections
We are offering something new this Advent. We have daily Advent reflections by your favorite authors and some new contributors that will...
Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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An Honest Thanksgiving
Here we are, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, surrounded by the chaos of this particular post-election season. Perhaps you find yourself...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Nov 23, 20243 min read
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Beauty in the Waiting
Have you ever lost patience in waiting for something? A bride waiting for her wedding day, a new mom waiting to give birth to her child,...
Jessica Grima Jewett
Nov 16, 20242 min read
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Liberating Love: The Generous Widow
As I write this, we are a few days away from the election, and I pray that the next President of the United States will govern with...
Jocelyn E. Collen
Nov 9, 20243 min read
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National Stress Awareness Day
Today, November 6, 2024, is National Stress Awareness Day which falls on the first Wednesday of November each year. Why have a national...
Susan Amann
Nov 6, 20243 min read
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A Perspective on Tomorrow
Our Church calls November 5th, 2024 “The Tuesday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time.” For me, it is much more. I am now 73 years...
Sue Delvaux
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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You Are Not Far
Today’s Gospel is a very familiar passage stating the Greatest Commandment. The story, in particular the restating of the Shema, reminds...
Sara Ann Conneely
Nov 3, 20243 min read
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Remember Me
My first memory of El Día De Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) was from middle school, when the Spanish language class made sugar skulls...
Jocelyn E. Collen
Nov 2, 20243 min read
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All Souls, Living and Departed
As the liturgical year draws to a close and we enter these twin feasts of All Saints and All Souls, I tend to think on my loved ones who...
Kathleen Clark
Nov 2, 20242 min read
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Reclaiming Rome
I last visited Rome almost 20 years ago, right after I graduated high school. I returned recently from October 12-19 as part of an...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 31, 20245 min read
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All God's Children Matter
We are days from what is predicted to be an even closer presidential election, which feels frightening to even acknowledge. The...
Patty Breen
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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The Freedom to Choose
Most Harry Potter fans will remember when Harry arrives at Hogwarts and sits in front of the whole school for every first year’s biggest...
Kelly Sankowski
Oct 26, 20243 min read
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The Dangers of that Founding Myth
On Tuesday you read my thoughts on the myth of being founded as a Christian Nation . I purposely avoided the very large, very dangerous...
Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 24, 20243 min read
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A Foundational Myth
One of the greatest myths held by a portion of our nation’s population is that we are a Christian nation. To an extent, yes. In the sense...
Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 22, 20243 min read
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An election season is prime time for virtue and values
In another reading for my “Art & Asceticism of Dialogue” graduate course, our class was assigned a reading from the book, I Never Thought...
Jenny Snarski
Oct 15, 20243 min read
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