Jennifer Delvaux
Looking forward to Advent
This weekend starts the season of Advent. We're so excited to have a full schedule of new material to share with you. You'll see the...
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Patty Breen
Nov 25, 20213 min read
Giving Thanks
Today's Readings What would you say is your favorite holiday and why? For me, it has long been Thanksgiving. While I love the beauty and...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Nov 22, 20212 min read
The Power of Joyful Music
When I look into the eyes of my youngest niece, Cecelia (Or Cece as my family likes to call her), I can’t help but think of the church's...
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Jane Aseltyne
Nov 21, 20212 min read
Discerning God's Dream
I’ve been Catholic for about eight years, and one of my favorite parts of my journey into the church has been learning about the various...
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Susan Amann
Nov 16, 20212 min read
The Smarty-Pants Saint
I have always love school. From my earliest school experience, I have been excited to start each academic year, eager to gather folders,...
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Bernadette K. Raspante
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Cultivating Tenderness
Today's Reflection “Don’t smile until Christmas!” This (terrible) piece of advice was given to me and countless other new teachers as we...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Nov 11, 20213 min read
Our So-called Military Life
Writing about Veterans’ Day as a military spouse is always a tricky endeavour. Do I go sentimental? Patriotic? As a scholar, writing...
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Patty Breen
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Bits and Pieces
Today's Readings I am the type of personality that does not love the “messy middle” of situations. You know what I mean, that in-between...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 6, 20216 min read
Why Are We Here?
Last week I took a vacation from work. I spent it immersed in reviewing years of study and sequestered in a lovely room in my school’s...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Nov 2, 20212 min read
This Year, Consider the Requiem
To be honest, I much prefer the Solemnity of All Saints. In the symphony of the liturgical year, All Saints is a joyful march, a...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Nov 1, 20213 min read
We Are All Called to Be Saints!
For as long as I can remember every year that I was in church ministry there would be a young child in the front pew at church for All...
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Rose Miola
Oct 31, 20212 min read
Maybe I'm not that bad
Today's Readings The “Golden Rule” is supposed to be simple. 1) Love God, with all of you, 2) love others, as much as you love yourself....
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Micole Amalu
Oct 27, 20213 min read
Thérèse, Josephine, Jane, and Me
The first time a therapist used the word trauma to describe my suffering I was stunned. I had just made peace with even going to therapy!...
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Bernadette K. Raspante
Oct 24, 20212 min read
Persistence
Today's Readings Last week, I procrastinated on a project that, should I have spread out over the course of a month, would have been a...
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Micole Amalu
Oct 22, 20213 min read
St. John Paul II: Missionary of Mercy
“There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Part 2 - Wounded, Scarred, and Radiant
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma, mental health, suicidal ideation This is the second part in a 2-part essay. For the first...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Part 1- I Didn’t Hear a Cry: PTSD, Birth Trauma, and the Road of Healing
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma Oddly enough, I thought about Angelina Jolie on the operating table. Years before, I’d read...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 17, 20213 min read
Rearranging Deck Chairs
Today's Readings What do you wish me to do for you? What a remarkable question to be asked by the Son of God, who is not even limited by...
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Patty Breen
Oct 15, 20213 min read
The Patron Saint of Sassy Women
A game I like to play with people sometimes is asking the following question: “If you could be the patron saint of anything, what would...
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Caroline Head
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Boundaries, please!
In March 2020, I was teaching third grade in suburban Chicago. On Friday, March 13th, we were given directions to send home belongings...
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