SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

Today, November 6, 2024, is National Stress Awareness Day which falls on the first Wednesday of November each year.  Why have a national...

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...

Today’s Gospel is a very familiar passage stating the Greatest Commandment. The story, in particular the restating of the Shema, reminds...

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...

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...

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...

We are days from what is predicted to be an even closer presidential election, which feels frightening to even acknowledge.  The...

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...

On Tuesday you read my thoughts on the myth of being founded as a Christian Nation . I purposely avoided the very large, very dangerous...

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...

In another reading for my “Art & Asceticism of Dialogue” graduate course, our class was assigned a reading from the book, I Never Thought...

“Let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.”   These last words from the reading...

Do we want the answers we already know? Or do we want to be loved into ever-expanding truth? “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with...

While I usually dread election season, this year my mindset has been almost completely transformed. This is almost completely thanks to a...

I had the privilege this past Easter weekend of getting a last minute call from my parish to read at our Vigil Mass.  The reading was the...

As the election season looms closer, we at Wisdom’s Dwelling are taking the opportunity to give space to the challenges that always arise...

I often say that I fell into teaching. Despite having played teacher as a child (should have been a dead give away honestly), I never...

Conflict is inevitable and today’s readings - every single one of them - brings that directly to our attention. Conflict is inevitable...

My first exposure to St. Hildegard of Bingen was through her artwork. Hildegard experienced a series of visions throughout her life,...

Today’s reading from Isaiah paints a remarkable, beautiful composite of images: Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of...