The Golden Rule
Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...
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Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...
Today's Readings This week, we encounter Luke’s shorter version of the Beatitudes. Here, we find ourselves “hashtag blessed,” though, not...
Today's Readings This week, reflecting on the Queen of Sheba's visit with Solomon, Jessica invites us to find new ways to be breathless...
Today's Readings This week has the most popular scripture passage for weddings! “Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous, it is...
Today's Readings Our Advent longing and waiting enters the final week today. As Christmas Day is next Saturday, this year we get to...
Today’s Readings One of my favorite parts of Advent is the time we spend hearing from the prophets, especially Jeremiah and Isaiah....
“There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his...
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...
In March 2020, I was teaching third grade in suburban Chicago. On Friday, March 13th, we were given directions to send home belongings...
Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...
Today is the feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. This young woman lived an incredibly simple, ordinary life. In the midst of that life,...
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...
Today's Readings When I was a classroom teacher, a grammar lesson on superlative adjectives was usually a humorous one. I would begin the...
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,...
Today’s Readings In today’s society, there is a new-found interest and emphasis on “self-care.” Ultimately, this idea of “self-care”...
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...
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...
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,...
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...