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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Rachel Conrad Carlson
May 122 min read
Like a Pomegranate
Burst–like a pomegranate, like a womb, like the tomb / my neat and tidy boundaries crack wide / the seams of my heart split and seep joy
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Apr 64 min read
Some Mercy Now
“MERCY is NOT table fry sharing!” Almost twenty years after leaving our Mercy high school, my best friend and I still exchange this...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Dec 23, 20233 min read
Love Forever Being Born
In November of 2022, I found myself silently weeping in the lobby of the University of Chicago Hospital, having just concluded my 38th...
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Susan Amann
Jan 1, 20233 min read
Never the Same Again
Today's Readings My first child, Matthew, was born 2 days before Thanksgiving 1989. I had no idea what I was doing. The physical,...
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Erika Tate
Dec 8, 20222 min read
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception teaches us that Mary was conceived without sin and never sinned. God had set her aside. We know this because of...
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Kate Wolbert
May 27, 20222 min read
Realizations of Divinity and Imperfection
Years ago, during a nativity program at church, my eldest son played the part of baby Jesus in the manger and of course, I was Mary, and...
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Kathleen O'Brien
May 23, 20222 min read
On Motherhood: Neither Catholic nor Secular
The question of vocation has always been a looming question for Catholics. And I mean vocation with the capital “V”. In college, this was...
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Rachel Conrad Carlson
May 16, 20223 min read
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...
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Patty Breen
May 7, 20222 min read
You Are My Shero
Shero - a woman who inspires you. A woman who has poured into your life, helping you become the woman God created you to be. Though an...
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Rakhi McCormick
May 1, 20223 min read
Do You Love Me?
The Gospel for today is packed with such rich imagery. From Peter leaping out of the boat into the sea to run to Jesus on the shore, to...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Part 2 - Wounded, Scarred, and Radiant
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma, mental health, suicidal ideation This is the second part in a 2-part essay. For the first...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Part 1- I Didn’t Hear a Cry: PTSD, Birth Trauma, and the Road of Healing
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma Oddly enough, I thought about Angelina Jolie on the operating table. Years before, I’d read...
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Sue Delvaux
May 9, 20212 min read
Mothering our Corner of the World
Today's Readings What a wonderful opportunity was given to me when I was offered the chance to prepare thoughts for this Sixth Sunday of...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Bringing Christ into the World
Bringing Christ into the World Mary sits on my mantle, crouched over an empty manger, waiting for a toddler to lay baby Jesus there on...
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