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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...

I was standing in a Mexican town square, looking at the facade of a church, when my phone pinged. I was feeling homesick during my study...

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...

Mary is a woman who has known grief. Certainly as a mother, her own child was killed. But also just as a woman.

Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...

May 13th is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.  I started reading everything that I could find on apparitions or visions of the Blessed...

Burst–like a pomegranate, like a womb, like the tomb / my neat and tidy boundaries crack wide / the seams of my heart split and seep joy

As someone 2,000+ years removed from Christ’s death and resurrection, I can find it easy to chuckle at the apostles’ lack of...

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,...

Growing up I found this passage of the gospel concerning the vines and the branches to be fairly straightforward. Then I began...

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...

“MERCY is NOT table fry sharing!” Almost twenty years after leaving our Mercy high school, my best friend and I still exchange this...

One of my favorite non-Christian theological songs is “Light On,” by Maggies Rogers. When I attended my first silent retreat in January,...

I'll never forget walking into church that Good Friday in 2013. I was in RCIA and experienced the Triduum for the first time as an almost...

When Holy Thursday comes to mind, I imagine most of us immediately think of the Last Supper and Jesus’ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane....

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....

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...

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...

Today’s Responsorial Psalm is a personal favorite: “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts”. My preference for this Psalm...

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...