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In today’s first reading from Exodus, Moses has spotted the burning bush on Mount Sinai. God calls to him by name. Moses answers “Here I...

I am preparing this on a bitter cold day literally and figuratively in Illinois on Monday, January 20, 2025. It was -1° when I got going...

In a very happy accident, I was assigned to write about today’s readings which just happen to include two verses from Jeremiah that I...

As we reflect and remember the Feast Day of St. Lucy, I had to go back and do some research. I have always thought of St. Lucy because...

Today’s Gospel is a very familiar passage stating the Greatest Commandment. The story, in particular the restating of the Shema, reminds...

I had the privilege this past Easter weekend of getting a last minute call from my parish to read at our Vigil Mass.  The reading was the...

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

As a high school theology teacher and new mother, I often find myself revisiting biblical stories that I have heard and read hundreds of...

Today’s Responsorial Psalm is a personal favorite: “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts”. My preference for this Psalm...

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...

A few years ago, I chose to leave my graduate program where I was studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. At the time this decision...

The holidays are past, and we are blessed with a powerful trio of readings on yet another extraordinary, ordinary Sunday! Here I am Lord,...

Today's Readings This week Erika seeks to understand the motivation of a mother in a difficult passage from the Old Testament.

Today's Readings I’ve been having very vivid dreams lately. Almost every night, I’ve been dreaming about people from throughout my life...

Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...

Today's Readings This week, Jessica invites us to remember Hagar.

Today's Readings As a non-Catholic Christian who frequently attends Mass, I am often fascinated by the chosen pairing of the Scriptures....

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...

Where are the women leaders? I know I’m far from the first to wonder that as I read through the Bible (or take even a brief glimpse at...

“In accordance with the Scriptures” Our Creed is steeped in Scripture. We’ve seen scriptural references in some of our reflections, so...