Susan Amann
Am I an Orphan?
It is that season again. We prepare. We wait. We anticipate. On this first Sunday of Advent 2023, Jesus tells us, “Be watchful! Be...
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Patty Breen
Changed, Not Ended
When my Dad died almost three years ago in January 2021, there were many moments of comfort: the meals people made for my mom as she...
Mary Beth Keenan
Naomi's Lesson: Accepting Accompaniment in Grief
Ruth is one of my favorite women in the Bible. I love that she has an entire book named after her. I love her fortitude in family and...
Kate Wolbert
Emmanuel
Today's Readings Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means "God is with us." Every...
Jessica Grima
Those Who Have Gone Before Us
Today's Readings “For everything, there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven.” Today we celebrate All Souls day. We...
Sue Delvaux
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...
Patty Breen
Father's Day without a Father
Can I share something with you? I have been dreading this day for about the last month or so. As I was leaving church on Mother’s Day, I...
Ellen Romer Niemiec
We Can Hold Both
Today's Readings As a woman in my mid-thirties, I am surrounded by friendships with women who are at all different places when it comes...
Jessica Grima
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...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
When We Need Our Mamas (And They're Not There)
I’ve been thinking about how becoming a mother intensifies our own need to be mothered. My husband and I joke that we both earned...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Like a Butterfly, part 2
This is a continuation of yesterday's piece from Rachel. In my mom’s words to me about a year before her passing (as quoted in...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Like a Butterfly, part 1
Today is part one of a two-piece series. Look for part two tomorrow. This January marked eight years since my mom passed away. I think...
Jane Aseltyne
When Prayer Is Difficult
As a woman religious, prayer is central to my life. I have personal prayer time in the morning, and in the evening, I gather with my...
Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
"Why?" Is Definitely the Question
Today's Readings Merry Christmas! The traditions of the Church around this time feel positively utopian, don’t they? Throughout Advent,...
Katie Davis-Crowder
Darkness/Light
For years, one of my favorite Advent rituals was to curate and post some version of the following on Instagram: There was something...
Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
This Year, Consider the Requiem
To be honest, I much prefer the Solemnity of All Saints. In the symphony of the liturgical year, All Saints is a joyful march, a...
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