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I know that Wisdom’s Dwelling goes to great lengths to ensure its readers and contributors are more than adequately offered pieces for...

Come, Holy Spirit! Today we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost. In the readings today, we hear about the apostles receiving the Holy...

Without in the least trivializing the splendid readings for this last Sunday of the Easter season, let me share that decades ago, I began...

There have been many happenings in my personal life over the past eight months that, before they occurred, I would have said were...

In the April 2025 Magnificat mass companion, the introduction for Divine Mercy Sunday says that Jesus showed his wounded hands and side,...

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...

Today we celebrate the second Sunday of Lent. As Catholics, tradition has taught us that the 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and...

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...

Today, we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. The Magi follow the star and offer their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Mary,...

By Alayna Carlock and Julia Morrow I was introduced to St. Oscar Romero years ago through the homily  that he delivered on Christmas Eve...

Here we are, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, surrounded by the chaos of this particular post-election season. Perhaps you find yourself...

As I write this, we are a few days away from the election, and I pray that the next President of the United States will govern with...

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...

I often say that I fell into teaching. Despite having played teacher as a child (should have been a dead give away honestly), I never...

Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...

This time of year is riddled with dates that remind me of my brokenheartedness. Between the beginning of February and the beginning of...

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

Today's Readings We are so close to Advent we can practically smell it. Our readings today make that very clear. Even though we are still...

Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...