Drawn by Love to Love
Looking back on my earliest school years, I recall well a few bouts of serious separation anxiety. Despite my love of learning and my...
Looking back on my earliest school years, I recall well a few bouts of serious separation anxiety. Despite my love of learning and my...
It is my greatest pleasure to introduce you to Jael, a warrior woman who killed a man with a tent peg. But first, because context is...
During Holy Week 2021, I participated from a distance in my parish’s annual Stations of the Cross service. Afterwards, I found myself...
Today's Readings For a short Gospel reading, we have quite a few metaphors explaining who we are meant to be as disciples of Christ....
Ironically, it feels that it is almost always in my most ordinary moments, that I find the most extraordinary things. I want to take deep...
Today's Readings When was the last time you looked at something upside down? If I’m being honest, for me it was probably checking the...
Today's Readings “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone....
Today's Readings I don’t know about you friend, but I find waiting to be such a difficult task sometimes. And yet, waiting is one of the...
…He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father… Reflecting on this after Christmas, I have a very simple...
Today's Readings It’s no secret that Jesus was a friend of the outcast. His life was about radical commitment to people most in need--the...
Today's Readings Today of all days is my absolute favorite day of the entire year because it was on this day 31 years ago that my baby...
Today's Readings I remember as a child, there were certain things my parents taught my siblings and I from a young age. The importance of...
Today's Readings If I just had more faith…. I think most of us have struggled with that at some point in our life. If I just had more...
Today’s Readings Perhaps one of the greatest identifiers of a human being is our free will. We have the ability to choose and it is what...
Today's Readings Jessica discusses our call to uniting the Body of Christ.
Today's Readings Throughout high school and college, my friends and I often repeated movie quotes to each other. As I read through...
A few months ago, as Chicago’s short-lived spring began to give way to the sunshiny freedom of summertime, I had the opportunity to write...
Today's Readings When I was younger, my older brother served in the Coast Guard for close to ten years. One year when he was working on...
Today’s Readings Hate our fathers and mothers, spouses and children, even our own lives. And take up our crosses. These lines are often...
Today’s Readings The readings today are a mixed bag. At some points the words offer comfort and hope. At others the warn of wailing and...