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Praise God - On Laudate Deum
The Pope is probably the furthest from the periphery you could get when considering voices in the Church. However, yesterday Pope Francis...

Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 5, 20234 min read
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And again...
Editor's note: I held Jenny's piece because it felt it needed some space before posting. I was going to post it this week, but here we...

Jenny Snarski
Apr 10, 20234 min read
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Death of a Teacher
The Vatican announced the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday with a brief statement of spiritual testament written by the...

Elizabeth Kos
Jan 1, 20234 min read
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In Remembrance, Overwhelming Grace
Today's Readings I was interested in writing this piece because of this Sunday’s date, September 11, 2022. Twenty-one years after the...

Sue Delvaux
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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Our Choice
Today's Readings “It is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.”...

Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 10, 20223 min read
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True Freedom
I have struggled with what to say about the massacre of children and their teacher in Uvalde, Texas a week ago. On the one hand, it feels...

Jennifer Delvaux
May 31, 20222 min read
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A Letter to a Hurting World
Today's Readings As I sit here writing this devotion for the 7th Sunday of Easter, my heart is again troubled as our world suffers at the...

Jessica Grima Jewett
May 29, 20222 min read
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This is not a day for triumphalism
Last night news of a massive shift in our nation leaked – the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. As we are dedicated to women, I wish to...

Jennifer Delvaux
May 3, 20222 min read
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Wisdom's Voice - Deep Listening
Today's Readings Jessica reflections on the importance of deeply listening when engaging in any conversation. She finds the words of...

Jessica Curbis
Feb 16, 20221 min read
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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...

Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 6, 20216 min read
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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
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The "To-Do" List Tasks According to the Spirit
Today's Readings A while ago, I saw a New Yorker cartoon of a woman doing yoga and her mat was a massive to-do list. I have thought of...

Bernadette K. Raspante
Aug 29, 20213 min read
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Prayers for Afghanistan & Haiti
As I was getting groceries after Mass, the news alert popped up that the President of Afghanistan has left his country. It is a sign that...

Jennifer Delvaux
Aug 15, 20212 min read
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Healing Hurts
2020 began for me with what I believed to be a clogged duct from breastfeeding. A painful occurrence to be sure, and that eventually...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Mar 16, 20214 min read
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What’s in the water you’re drinking?
In the gospel reading I’m reminded Jesus is the brazen rabble-rouser that I always forget about. “At that moment his disciples returned,...

Rose Miola
Mar 7, 20213 min read
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Searching for Hope
Today's Readings A sign. As continue living through this pandemic. With a winter that is daily adding pain and suffering. We enter in to...

Jennifer Delvaux
Feb 21, 20212 min read
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The Complexity of Identity
Who am I? Where do I belong? These are questions that have plagued me from a young age. Growing up Indian and Hindu in a small Iowa town,...

Rakhi McCormick
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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Politics and Faith
In the aftermath of January 6 and in anticipation of potential additional protests, riots, and mobs we see calls for bipartisanship and...

Jennifer Delvaux
Jan 14, 20212 min read
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In a Shipwreck
As I watched the events unfold yesterday afternoon and evening, it was tempting to say how surprising they were, how shocking, how...

Jennifer Delvaux
Jan 7, 20213 min read
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2020 as the Year of Many “Firsts”
I asked my sister, “Hey how will you remember 2020?” Her reply, “No words.” I brushed her answer off and naturally saw it as sarcasm. But...

Kathleen O'Brien
Dec 31, 20202 min read
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