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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...

Bernadette K. Raspante
Oct 24, 20212 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...

Micole Amalu
Oct 22, 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...

Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 20, 20213 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...

Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 18, 20214 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...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 17, 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...

Patty Breen
Oct 15, 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...

Caroline Head
Oct 13, 20213 min read


Wisdom and Faith
Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...

Caroline Head
Oct 10, 20212 min read


Kicking to the Surface
I had someone ask me not long ago why I decided to take medication for my mental health. I was already in therapy. Why did I suddenly...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 6, 20214 min read


Misery Met by Mercy
Today is the feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. This young woman lived an incredibly simple, ordinary life. In the midst of that life,...

Micole Amalu
Oct 5, 20212 min read


Call Me Ezer
I find that most people are confused by me. “Hold on, you’re a Catholic campus minister,” they reply after I’ve introduced myself, “and...

Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 3, 20213 min read


The Angels Who Walk Among Us
Today's Readings For as long as I can remember, my parents taught my siblings and I that God entrusted a Guardian Angel for each of us...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Oct 2, 20213 min read


My Best Friend
I met my best friend when we were 12. We lived in 2 different suburbs about 30 minutes apart. I am still in disbelief that at a time when...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Sep 27, 20212 min read


Keeping Up with the Joneses
Today's Readings We just spent a chunk of money on our lawn. We update and upgrade our various electronic devices. We spend money and...

Rose Miola
Sep 26, 20212 min read


Make Way for Something New
I measure the seasons by my notebook of grocery lists. Cold salads, watermelon gazpacho, grilled vegetables and meats have been...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Sep 22, 20213 min read


The Ever-Changing Waves in Our Lives
If you are a person living on Earth, especially in the last year and a half, then at some point in time you have experienced change in...

Jessica Grima Jewett
Sep 20, 20213 min read


Who Is the Best?
Today's Readings When I was a classroom teacher, a grammar lesson on superlative adjectives was usually a humorous one. I would begin the...

Caroline Head
Sep 19, 20212 min read


Heaven in the Cracks
“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is...

Jennifer Delvaux
Sep 17, 20213 min read


In Our Heaviness
Life is heavy and I’m not okay. The emotional impact of the past two years of infertility has caught up with me. The loss of our unborn...

Micole Amalu
Sep 15, 20213 min read


Change at God's Pace
This past weekend, while my husband and I worked on one yardwork chore or another, I wiped the sweat from my brow and stabbed my shovel...

Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Sep 13, 20215 min read
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