The Support and Challenge of Friends
Today we celebrate three of Jesus’s closest friends: Lazarus, who is described as “the one you love” (John 11:3); Mary, who performs the...
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Today we celebrate three of Jesus’s closest friends: Lazarus, who is described as “the one you love” (John 11:3); Mary, who performs the...
The story of the disciples being sent out two by two, without taking anything with them, is Good News! The Good News is that we don’t...
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...
Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...
Like many Catholic women, my relationship with Mary has had its ups and downs. Growing up, women are so often told to idolize Mary and...
If there was a patron saint of partying, St. Margaret of Scotland should be it. As Queen of Scotland, she used her court and influence to...
Not being raised Catholic, my understanding of saints was murky at best. I knew they were people whose lives honored God, whose faith...
Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...
Perhaps many of you have heard of and some of you may have experienced the Eucharistic Revival in your parishes. An initiative of the...
“During those days, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to the town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah...
The Gospel for the vigil mass of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is only a few lines from Luke, chapter 11,...
Today's Readings Today’s readings remind me of the popular improv game called “Yes, and.” I played the “Yes, and” game semi-regularly in...
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....