Caroline Head
Save Us From Ourselves, O Lord
Today's Readings Our Advent longing and waiting enters the final week today. As Christmas Day is next Saturday, this year we get to...
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Jennifer Delvaux
An Advent of Justice & Love
Today’s Readings One of my favorite parts of Advent is the time we spend hearing from the prophets, especially Jeremiah and Isaiah....
Micole Amalu
St. John Paul II: Missionary of Mercy
“There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
Rearranging Deck Chairs
Today's Readings What do you wish me to do for you? What a remarkable question to be asked by the Son of God, who is not even limited by...
Caroline Head
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
Wisdom and Faith
Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...
Micole Amalu
Misery Met by Mercy
Today is the feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. This young woman lived an incredibly simple, ordinary life. In the midst of that life,...
Jessica Grima
The Ever-Changing Waves in Our Lives
If you are a person living on Earth, especially in the last year and a half, then at some point in time you have experienced change in...
Caroline Head
Who Is the Best?
Today's Readings When I was a classroom teacher, a grammar lesson on superlative adjectives was usually a humorous one. I would begin the...
Rose Miola
This is enough, Lord!
Today’s Readings “This is enough, Lord! There have been times when I just want to say that. When I am witness to extreme pain,...
Kathleen O'Brien
An Invitation to Do Nothing
Today’s Readings In today’s society, there is a new-found interest and emphasis on “self-care.” Ultimately, this idea of “self-care”...
Jessica Grima
The Hero of your Story
June 2003, was the very first Father’s Day that was different for me. It was the first year that I was going to have to endure the day...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
Precious Bodies
Today's Readings Being sprinkled with blood sounds gross. Maybe I am the child of doctors, but it weirds me out. It’s not seen as...
Jennifer Delvaux
Iron Man, My Brother, and Dorothy Day
Today’s Readings Of all the movies that could be emotionally difficult for me that year, I was not anticipating one being Iron Man. Yet,...
Jessica Grima
Still...You Carry Us
My God, My God, how majestic is your name in all the earth! I will glory in the Lord all my earthly days; Let the praise of God’s name be...