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The Invitation to Dialogue: listen!
While I usually dread election season, this year my mindset has been almost completely transformed. This is almost completely thanks to a...

Jenny Snarski
Oct 8, 20243 min read


The True Light and Life
If truth be told, I have to admit that I am exhausted. I mean, deeply physically, emotionally and mentally done in. Stretched beyond my...

Rachel Conrad Carlson
Sep 1, 20242 min read


We Walk by Faith
Today’s readings are full of timeless one-liners in the Christian playbook. Joshua makes the iconic declaration that “As for me and my...

Kathleen Clark
Aug 24, 20242 min read


Breakfast and Eucharist
A number of years ago I went to a First Communion Mass and the priest offering the homily made it very relatable to the children in ways...

Patty Breen
Aug 3, 20242 min read


Mary Magdalene
As I write this piece celebrating Mary Magdalene on her feast day, I keep thinking how beloved she must be to so many of us who write for...

Rachel Conrad Carlson
Jul 22, 20243 min read


Teaching in the Footsteps of Christ
If I tell the story of how I came into ministry, I can tell you what time of the year it was, where I was standing, and what I was doing....

Jessica Grima Jewett
Jun 15, 20242 min read


Wrestling with Blood
My two-year-old son doesn’t understand much about our faith yet, but he knows that the shape of a cross is associated with Jesus. One...
Kelly Sankowski
Jun 1, 20243 min read


Experiencing the Trinity in Community
Trinity Sunday can at once feel both mundane and inaccessible. We call upon the name of the Trinity in our prayer so often that the...

Maura Rocks
May 26, 20242 min read


You are My Friend, You’re Special to Me
F-R-I-E-N-D. We all know what that spells. Friends are the best gift we can have. Friendship can get us through any sorrow, hardship,...

Jocelyn E. Collen
May 4, 20243 min read


Roots
Growing up I found this passage of the gospel concerning the vines and the branches to be fairly straightforward. Then I began...

Allison Bobzien
Apr 27, 20242 min read


The Tension of Good Friday
I'll never forget walking into church that Good Friday in 2013. I was in RCIA and experienced the Triduum for the first time as an almost...

Jane Aseltyne
Mar 29, 20243 min read


Cobblestones, Grace, and Comfortable Shoes
The strangest Palm Sunday experience I ever had was when I somehow ended up as a lector at the Mass with Pope Benedict several years ago....

Jennifer Delvaux
Mar 23, 20243 min read


Trouble and Glory
Today’s Gospel is particularly difficult to read and reflect on; Jesus predicts his own death, says that those who wish to serve him must...

Sara Ann Conneely
Mar 17, 20242 min read


Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
The Old Testament reading this week is the well-known story of “the binding of Isaac.” Abraham has been told by God to bring his only...

Erika Tate
Feb 24, 20242 min read


In My Rent Garments
I am struggling to imagine a world reconciled to God. It is not the world I see around me. The horrific attacks on Israel on October 7th....

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Feb 14, 20242 min read


The Gift of Presence
Since I finished my undergraduate degree almost nine years ago, I have moved a lot. Across four cities, seven apartments, and six...

Kathleen Clark
Feb 2, 20242 min read


The Gift of Choices
The miracles of Jesus served many purposes; of course, they were service to those who most needed healing, but they also supported Jesus’...

Sara Spittler
Jan 27, 20243 min read


Shaped by Family
“The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him” (Luke 2:22). This is one of the small peeks we...
Josie Diebold
Dec 30, 20232 min read


In the Fray
Today’s Gospel reading states that “A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might...

Rachel Conrad Carlson
Dec 16, 20233 min read


Make Me a Prophet
The mountain village of Ein Karem, southwest of Jerusalem, is the location of two churches in the Holy Land: The Church of the Visitation...

Patty Breen
Dec 9, 20232 min read
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